By: Jacob Mikanowski

Breaking through received perception and making the world new.

By: William Nericcio

The Faulkner or Joyce of Mexican-American Texas.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

“We are condemned to civilization.”

By: Erik Davis

A great novelist of high weirdness.

By: Suzanne Fischer

His YA novels fuse an erudite silliness with real menace.

By: Brian Berger

La propriété, c’est le vol.

By: Mark Kingwell

Challenging power and preserving the environment.

By: Franklin Bruno

“Do not sing to rain, poet, make it rain.”

By: William Nericcio

She helped pioneer second-wave feminism.

By: Lynn Peril

He looked — and sounded! — great in frills.

By: Franklin Bruno

His solos elliptically paraphrase his melodies.

By: Lynn Peril

Devastatingly funny one week and bittersweet the next.

By: Joshua Glenn

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2014.

By: Anthony Miller

Not for him the “purblind vision” of small minds.

By: William Nericcio

Lights, camera, action suffuse the cadence of his sentences.