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.

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

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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.

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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.

By: Joshua Glenn

Alfred Lambert’s prehistoric golf shoes — from The Corrections.

By: Joshua Glenn

Moldorf’s patent-leather shoes — from Tropic of Cancer.

By: Joshua Glenn

He was a martyr in the cause of absurdism and ’pataphysics.

By: Joshua Glenn

A collector’s guide!

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Tom Joad’s “army last” shoes — from The Grapes of Wrath.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ignatius O’Reilly’s suede desert boots — from A Confederacy of Dunces.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ed Gentry’s white tennis shoes — from Deliverance.