By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

His art was populated with talismanic objects.

By: Suzanne Fischer

Teleportation, space travel, and the id.

By: Kio Stark

“this is the saddest story I have ever heard”

By: Erik Davis

Machines can be absurd, surprising, ridiculous, sublime.

By: Suzanne Fischer

His constant concern was the other side of the dark mirror.

By: Ingrid Schorr

That is no St. Bernard, madam; that is a bear.

By: Tom Nealon

Miley Cyrus is at once surface and symbol.

By: Erik Davis

A restive blue-collar visionary.

By: Tor Aarestad

“Like Martin Luther King, I will do my thing”

By: Franklin Bruno

Trying to write about one clearly defined question at a time.

By: Lucy Sante

A teenage runaway who happened to be possessed of genius.

By: David Smay

The great striker of sentences between Joyce and Nabokov.

By: Tor Aarestad

His antihero, Pechorin, would kill on reality TV.

By: Elina Shatkin

An astute proto-ethnologist attired in full Victorian garb.

By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

“That saving incertitude which is our supreme consolation.”