By: David Smay

Her gro­tesques are often theo­logical heresies made flesh.

By: Matthew Battles

Truth, too, is a kind of magic, and skepticism a spell.

By: Patrick Cates

He taught us not to fear existential freedom.

By: Peggy Nelson

Shatner the actor figured out how to gain creative leverage on Shatner the icon.

By: Mimi Lipson

A contro­versial auteur who aimed at truck drivers and college students.

By: Lucy Sante

Like knives, the beats cut through layers of murk.

By: Brian Berger

At Black Mountain College, he taught “to open eyes.”

By: Sarah Weinman

His voice reached almost inaudible heights of ecstasy.

By: David Smay

His was a sophisticated form of spectacle-as-critique.

By: Erik Davis

He wrote tart manifestos of absurdist negation.

By: Tom Nealon

DAVID CRONENBERG (born 1943) has been lauded for his blurring of boundaries between technology and the individual, but this praise has consistently missed the point, for his films have singularly denied the existence of any […]

By: Mark Kingwell

Embod­ied conscious­ness and being-in-the-world…

By: Alexis Madrigal

Growth may not always find a way, she argued.

By: Patrick Cates

He’s the brains and brawn behind Iron Maiden.

By: Joshua Glenn

She sympathized with hard-working men, women, and dwarves.