By: Dan Reines

Stephen Colbert’s funny comes from an invention: “Stephen Colbert.”

By: Brian Berger

The visionary electronic composer who wrote the DR. WHO theme.

By: Katie Hennessey

An almost aboriginal, somewhat psychedelic, particularly populist style.

By: Greg Rowland

He reclaimed the rhythms of the body and the industrial machine.

By: Patrick Cates

His antics are merely the by-product of the tortured mangle that is his mind.

By: Mimi Lipson

His films came from a planet called Baltimore.

By: Mark Kingwell

Walter Benjamin “allowed me to survive Heidegger.”

By: Elina Shatkin

The two things she loved most: her husband and an exploding volcano.

By: Franklin Bruno

He invented the breakbeat, a key element of hip-hop.

By: Katie Hennessey

She has avoided media scandal like Harry avoids the dementors.

By: Mark Kingwell

“For whom does the telephone bell toll?”

By: Tor Aarestad

No one does teenage fragility and aggrieved hostility better.

By: Devin McKinney

Hannibal Lecter purely represents a set of American angers and anxieties.

By: Franklin Bruno

The “Master of Records” remains enigmatic despite his renown.

By: Flourish Klink

Her scowl says: I don’t belong to anybody but myself.