That is no St. Bernard, madam; that is a bear.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

A beautiful new sci-fi paperback from HiLoBooks.

Highbrow and lowbrow culture are amazing sources of joy and insight and wisdom.

“Lose interest in yourself; gain interest in everyone else.”

Stuff we admired, here at HiLobrow, during the past 12 months.

Bringing Swiftian vengeance to the streets of America.

“Comedy — real comedy – isn’t only tellin’ jokes. It’s about telling the truth.”

Sara Ryan’s new graphic novel is a perfect holiday gift.

Now I’m a believer.

He theorized a cybernetic architecture of mythopoetics.

Donald Duck chokes on a peace pipe.

From James Fenimore Cooper to Charles Portis…

From Rafael Sabatini to Geoffrey Household and Frederick Forsyth…

From James Fenimore Cooper and Arthur Ransome to Paul Theroux…

Miley Cyrus is at once surface and symbol.

He rejected the either/or choice of conventional morality vs. cynicism.

One of the first mutants! A forgotten 1927 classic.

From Anthony Hope to Alistair MacLean and J.G. Farrell…

“If we’re bad citizens, we’re doing our job.”

From R.L. Stevenson to Thomas Pynchon and Ishmael Reed…

A restive blue-collar visionary.

From Mark Twain to Hunter S. Thompson and Erica Jong…

From H. Rider Haggard to T. Coraghessan Boyle…