By: Amanda French

What linked her lowbrow mysteries and highbrow scholarship?

By: Adrienne Crew

Beware!!! It’s… the avatar of lowbrow schlock-producers!!!

By: Joshua Glenn

A child’s garden of verses overrun by drunken mermaids!

By: Mark Kingwell

He ended up a cocoa-butter shell of a man.

By: Franklin Bruno

“I use all my skills to make situations as chaotic as possible.”

By: Lynn Peril

An almost unbearably emotive voice.

By: Tor Aarestad

German history, anti-norm­ativity, and structur­alism.

By: Adam McGovern

In the end, his assassin proved more influential than he did.

By: Lucy Sante

He was called “the musketeer of anarchy.”

By: Greg Rowland

His spooky-measured voice evoked a civilized darkness.

By: Brian Berger

“Ladies and gentlemen, watch Ruth!”

By: Amanda French

His paintings say “Mine! Mine!” and cannot be consoled or reasoned with.

By: Adam McGovern

Immortal, like a surgical version of H. Rider Haggard’s SHE.

By: David Smay

Mere anarchy loosed upon the world.

By: Brian Berger

He wrote “The Philosophy of Breaking Through”