By: Mark Kingwell

A beautifully conflicted Marxist intellectual.

By: Mark Kingwell

He could write to amuse… or irritate.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

Breaking through received perception and making the world new.

By: Mark Kingwell

Challenging power and preserving the environment.

By: William Nericcio

She helped pioneer second-wave feminism.

By: Anthony Miller

Not for him the “purblind vision” of small minds.

By: Karinne Keithley Syers

Dance as a place of attuning one’s relation­ship to bio­physical life.

By: Anthony Miller

His filiations : the world, the text, and the critic.

By: Alix Lambert

The primary purpose of prison is not rehabilitation but repression.

By: Jerrold Freitag

He builds churches of disaster, museums of accidents.

By: Joshua Glenn

Paranoid thrillers from Kafka to Graham Greene to William Gibson.

By: Anthony Miller

He elevated intertextuality to a literary theology.

By: William Nericcio

The Cuban writer who was the toast of 1960s-70s Paris.

By: Tom Nealon

Down with “thick and rich” gravy!

By: Tom Nealon

Secret History of Salad Dressing