John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...

A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem. By Clay Risen Marjorie Perloff, whose ...

Inspired into action by the necessities of countering the threat of war and economic weakness, and recognizing the power of foreign and domestic propaganda and espionage, Roosevelt deliberately ...