By: Greg Rowland

“P is for Propp, saying fables were samey but all slightly bent.”

By: Greg Rowland

“M is for Marx, an old guy with a beard.”

By: Greg Rowland

“K is Kristeva, a favorite of mine.”

By: Greg Rowland

“F is Foucault of ‘Knowledge is Power’.”

By: Greg Rowland

“Derrida (‘D’) confused lots of folks”

By: Greg Rowland

Nursery rhymes for seriously precocious children!

By: Tor Aarestad

A lethally and incessantly clever futurist.

By: Jessica Bruder

Fashion plate, poet, proto-punk and feminist performance artist.

By: Lucy Sante

“Surrealism is the order of the day, and Desnos is its prophet”

By: HILOBROW

“Astronomy was not embraced within his mental girth”

By: William Nericcio

She wielded mad intellectual superpowers.

By: Brian Berger

He made paradoxic human music of despair.

By: Jerrold Freitag

She strolled in the no man’s land between seeing too much and innocence.

By: Brian Berger

Spare, coiled works of un­settling philosoph­ical rigor

By: Mark Kingwell

There is a kind of artist whose career makes no sense.