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.”

By: Franklin Bruno

He preferred thieves and roués to bosses, bureaucrats, and burghers.

By: David Smay

Romita freed Spider-Man to swing — literally — through Manhattan.

By: Lynn Peril

Pianos plink and glide, strings zigzag into space!

By: Mark Kingwell

He tracked the “lines of flight” that ideas can take up against power.

By: Joshua Glenn

He began as a critic of Middlebrow, but was suborned by it.