By: Peggy Nelson

What does art look like when it becomes philosophy?

By: Matthew Battles

His silence helps to preserve the moon’s mystique.

By: David Smay

It’s the blackness in his writing that stays with you.

By: Joshua Glenn

His sci-fi was notable for being pastoral and nostalgic.

By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

She was deliciously urbane, but championed unpopular causes.

By: Brian Berger

“I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser!”

By: Lucy Sante

He was a great writer and a cautionary tale.

By: Joshua Glenn

Charming vs. Creepy is the battle of our age.

By: David Smay

Beyond the jargon of authenticity, dissonance and dark places.

By: Patrick Cates

The Galileo of gaming who taught a lad of limited imagination how to imagine.

By: Amanda French

This pedigreed, highbrow dystopian was a godfather of the Sixties.

By: Matthew Battles

Her hard-won image of the helix helped lay the basis for modern biology.

By: Matthew Battles

The life of ROBERT GRAVES (1895–1985) is as an impenetrable forest, tree ravaging tree in a primordial war of the word. Himself the subject of more books than most authors can reasonably hope to write, […]

By: Carolyn Kellogg

Something in the city he gave us betrayed him.

By: Peggy Nelson

The heiress-turned-aviatrix who conquered earth, sea, & air.