By: Lucy Sante

He was called “the musketeer of anarchy.”

By: Greg Rowland

His spooky-measured voice evoked a civilized darkness.

By: Brian Berger

“Ladies and gentlemen, watch Ruth!”

By: Amanda French

His paintings say “Mine! Mine!” and cannot be consoled or reasoned with.

By: Adam McGovern

Immortal, like a surgical version of H. Rider Haggard’s SHE.

By: David Smay

Mere anarchy loosed upon the world.

By: Brian Berger

He wrote “The Philosophy of Breaking Through”

By: Alix Lambert

She came by her depth and sensitivity the hard way.

By: Greg Rowland

France had Existentialism; England had Hancock.

By: Joshua Glenn

Was this philosophical romancer a “science fiction” author?

By: Brian Berger

“Catch me at the flicks, Apollo rap Frederick Douglass”

By: Franklin Bruno

Andre Bazin wrote “he directs facts” — but did he?

By: Adam McGovern

He let you know authority was a crock, even when he was the one holding it.

By: Peggy Nelson

His breakthrough was to see the mind as a linguistic construct.

By: Alix Lambert

“‘This is how you’ll end.’/‘Just lie quietly,’ I said to myself…”