By: Mark Kingwell

He is champagne — complete with hangover.

By: Peggy Nelson

A humorist who poses a puzzle to theories of language and identity.

By: David Smay

With Borges, one of the great masters of the short story.

By: Brian Berger

In 1968, a year of riots, he reached his ascendancy.

By: Anthony Miller

A proponent and practitioner of amplificatio and limerence.

By: Joshua Glenn

His radio-building hobby led him to pioneer pulp sci-fi!

By: Suzanne Fischer

She created the Regency Romance.

By: Amanda French

There is no such thing as “a Josephine Tey.”

By: Devin McKinney

A willing inmate of his own prison: “Papa.”

By: Tom Nealon

He documented Creole cuisine at the moment of its invention.

By: Anthony Miller

“Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.”

By: Jerrold Freitag

“The will that aims toward its freedom plunges into the void.”

By: Anthony Miller

He writes about — as well as into — the ineffable.

By: William Nericcio

His vision of Mexico was minimalist and tragic.

By: Brian Berger

A military comedy, a corporate espionage tale, a wicked sex romp.