By: Joshua Glenn

Chaplain Tappman’s rubber-soled shoes — from Catch-22.

By: Joshua Glenn

Stephen Dedalus’ broadtoed boots — from Ulysses.

By: Joshua Glenn

His sci-fi was notable for being pastoral and nostalgic.

By: Lucy Sante

He was a great writer and a cautionary tale.

By: Amanda French

This pedigreed, highbrow dystopian was a godfather of the Sixties.

By: Matthew Battles

The life of ROBERT GRAVES (1895–1985) is as an impenetrable forest, tree ravaging tree in a primordial war of the word. Himself the subject of more books than most authors can reasonably hope to write, […]

By: Carolyn Kellogg

Something in the city he gave us betrayed him.

By: Joshua Glenn

Where did the term “gonzo” originate?

By: Matthew Battles

To analyze is to misinterpret.

By: Joshua Glenn

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

By: Tor Aarestad

Where could one find another like him in all the world?

By: Joshua Glenn

Or is it “Plastic Man”?

By: Amanda French

Before we blamed our madness on nature, we drove each other crazy.

By: Joshua Glenn

He searched far and wide for dialectical synthesis, only to reject it.

By: Matthew Battles

To abandon Earth’s succor for the theatre of the clouds.