By: Anthony Miller

The first scholar to take avant-garde film that seriously.

By: Tor Aarestad

His study of the cultural practices and mentalité of the poor was transformative.

By: Lucy Sante

In American humor, she discerned “a deep-lying mood of dis­severance.”

By: Alix Lambert

“The truth has a power greater than a hundred lies.”

By: Franklin Bruno

He began his critical career as a Welsh signalman’s son drawn to English literary tradition, and ended it as a Cambridge don extolling the vitality of rural and working-class life. In between, RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-88) […]