By: Mark Kingwell

The only real liberty is the liberty to determine one’s own ends.

By: Tom Nealon

The parataxic pyrotechnics of hip-hop’s Ishmael Reed.

By: Joe Alterio

Her cheesecore saga challenged the pieties of fantasy.

By: Patrick Cates

Britain’s only renaissance hooligan.

By: Peggy Nelson

She asked what we wanted, & all we said was “more.”

By: David Smay

Hippiedom’s early inquirer into the appetites and their obstacles.

By: Franklin Bruno

His pursuit of formal balance hardly numbed him to racial concerns.

By: Brian Berger

The lucid anger & radical influence of a life too brief.

By: Alexis Madrigal

The irreducible weirdness of an environmental icon.

By: Amanda French

How to write like you have nothing left to lose.

By: Tom Nealon

He saw and rejected the end of post­modernism.

By: Peggy Nelson

When the myth cracked, the man showed through.

By: Brian Berger

Ambiguity in a world of song beyond hero and anti-hero.

By: Peggy Nelson

The master shape-shifter and perennial Young Turk.

By: David Smay

His elegant electronics gave us the soundtrack of a fractured and funky tomorrow.