By: Joshua Glenn

High-, low-, no-, and hilobrow members of the Partisan Generation include: Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Clement Greenberg (whose 1939 Partisan Review essay, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” and 1953 Commentary essay, “The Plight of Our Culture,” are […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“My starting point is always a feeling of partisan­ship, a sense of injustice.”

By: Sarah Weinman

The precise definition of “New Weird” (a recent avant-garde literary movement seeking to update a moribund Fantasy/SF genre) remains elusive, but the works of British author CHINA MIÉVILLE (born 1972) simultaneously fit and subvert the […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.

By: David Smay

He helped free science fiction from 19th-century (or any) values.

By: David Smay

Insanely prolific, unbelievably vital, formally inventive.

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Erik Davis

He introduced “outsideness” — cosmic dread — to science fiction.

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

Moses was obsessed with micro­organisms like yeast… because God is an alien.

By: Erik Davis

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the 18th lord of the Irish barony of Dunsany, hunted big game in Africa and played champion chess. As LORD DUNSANY (1878-1957), he also wrote, without revising, a prodigious number […]

By: Erik Davis

Smith explored the inner landscapes opened up by postwar mind science.

By: Jason Grote

The biography of ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-88) firmly places Golden-Age SF on the grand continuum of Americana: the no-nonsense engineer’s mentality of his Kansas City upbringing, his longing for military service (he graduated from the […]