By: Joshua Glenn

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1884-93 cohort sought to make it new, to begin again.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1874-83 cohort travel far and wide in search of new visions.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1864-73 cohort is a lost generation of absurdists and experimenters.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1854-63 cohort are spelunkers, in search of deep truths.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1844-53 cohort overreached — and worried about it.

By: Lynn Peril

Clad in a leather jumpsuit, tiny waist offset by enormous bosom, her performance in Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) transformed what could have been a run-of-the-mill B-movie into a parable of female power […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Nope! A century-old literary mystery, solved.

By: Matthew Battles

1 …Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Teenage mutants…

By: Joshua Glenn

Nietzsche’s lonely­hearts ads went unanswered…

By: Joshua Glenn

An abridged version of this essay appeared in the journal n+1 (Winter 2007). PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE I set out to commemorate the heroes of old who sailed the good ship […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Psyche­delic revel­ations about the arti­ficial nature of reality

By: Jason Grote

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By: Joshua Glenn

“Once I was an alchemist named Alec, of Holland”