By: Joshua Glenn

Did Sid Vicious really invent this British dance move?

By: Amanda French

What linked her lowbrow mysteries and highbrow scholarship?

By: Brian Berger

“Coarse sexuality. Data and cynical commentary… Jokes!”

By: Sherri Wasserman

Mr. Norton’s custom-fit brogues, from Invisible Man.

By: Brian Berger

His albums demonstrated traditional music’s avant-garde potential.

By: Lucy Sante

He was poet laureate of the live ones.

By: Tim Carmody

Each “mistake” or transposition of logic and syntax carried a shift in meaning.

By: Joshua Glenn

Zamyatin’s We isn’t anti-utopian, but anti-anti-utopian.

By: Brian Berger

His U.S.A. trilogy is the ne plus ultra of avant-garde historical fiction.

By: Joshua Glenn

Mark Wahlberg’s penis, Sinatra as intellectual, cheerleaders.

By: Greg Rowland

His vision glued together the most complex mythological narrative ever.

By: David Smay

He wrote poetry of love glimpsed as a mystery from within the teeth of sex.

By: Joshua Glenn

Is Sherlock a semionaut, or just a brilliant bigot?

By: Joshua Glenn

Pity the poor semio­naut, who “reads” the world phen­omeno­logically.

By: Patrick Cates

Marcus’s plain black loafers — from About a Boy.