By: Brian Berger

Why wasn’t “Boll Weevil” #1?

By: Patrick Cates

He laid the foundations for one-color purity as early as 1913.

By: Brian Berger

His Mumbo Jumbo promised: “We will make our own future Text.”

By: Peggy Nelson

His irrepressible optimism and perseverance outlasted his era.

By: Mark Kingwell

Reason itself becomes the monster.

By: Alix Lambert

He exhibited a controlled frenzy that shaped the hardcore punk movement.

By: Brian Berger

Nobody in American music did more with less.

By: Lucy Sante

He was poet laureate of the live ones.

By: Jason Grote

A brutality so extreme as to border on black comedy.

By: Adrienne Crew

Her steely eroticism lent a sense of refinement to depraved encounters.

By: David Smay

Beauty — rapturous sexy sexy, glorious abandon at war with ethics.

By: Tim Carmody

Each “mistake” or transposition of logic and syntax carried a shift in meaning.

By: Brian Berger

The tenor saxophonist’s tone was a marvel of fluid sincerity.

By: Joshua Glenn

Zamyatin’s We isn’t anti-utopian, but anti-anti-utopian.

By: Lynn Peril

“There has never been anything like this before in human society.”