By: Joshua Glenn

Our circle of hermenautic friends has conjured up a dozen more highbrow (or at least classic) novels with lowbrow cover art. Here’s a selection — thanks, Luc, for the first two. Check out the entire […]

By: Matthew Battles

Winston Moseley’s brutal murder of Kitty Genovese in the small hours of March 13, 1964 remains one of the most riveting stories in the annals of crime. In a famous New York Times story about […]

By: Matthew Battles

Today, at long last, I saw the Ether Dome. It’s not a fan remix of a Mad Max movie, nor is it a fancifully named head shop. One of Boston’s most neglected historic sites, the […]

By: Matthew Battles

We’re happy that French-Canadian animator Patrick Boivin likes to play with toys. Ever wonder who’d win a Bruce Lee/Iron Man action figure smackdown? Ah, but things aren’t so simple as that–not by half.

By: Matthew Battles

Steampunk artist and impresario Hieronymus Isambard von Slatt has joined the ranks of good people observing Ada Lovelace Day. See how he makes his Altoids tin etching of an Ada Lovelace portrait here. Ada Lovelace […]

By: Matthew Battles

Here’s a quick post pointing to Hulu’s Cosmos channel, where Carl Sagan’s entire groundbreaking PBS series may be streamed for free. Sagan’s series introduced a generation to a universe that was both comprehensible and mystical–an […]

By: Matthew Battles

Flickr user Tim Bean created a photographic tour of Boston locations mentioned in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1962-2008). Bean’s photos are annotated and geo-tagged for reference. We’re looking for other great […]

By: Matthew Battles

Herbert Pfostl is an artist we’d like to know more about. His work combines found images and text with figural notions of animals and herbs, half-finished rubbings, and archetypal blots and smudges. Pfostl’s drawings and […]

By: Matthew Battles

The concept of the Uncanny Valley was proposed by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, author of Buddha in the Machine (in which Mori asserts that a robot can achieve enlightenment). Mori noted the revulsion many observers […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“Once I was an alchemist named Alec, of Holland”

By: Joshua Glenn

More hilobrow cover art! Check out the entire series. *** Mad props to Jonathan Lethem for this one. And for reminding us of the following hardboiled-style treatments of Faulkner and Fitzgerald. Readers, please keep the […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Check out the entire series. *** *** HiLobrow.com offers thanks and praise to Luc Sante for these images from his collection. Do Murger and Zola count as highbrow? Not sure. Still… *** *** HILOBROW COVER […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Long Island, Summer of 1954 — what’s that hardcover book that Marilyn is reading? Daphne du Maurier’s Mary Anne? Irving Stone’s Love is Eternal? Can’t… quite… make it out. Can we zoom in, please? Oh!

By: Joshua Glenn

OK, maybe “highbrow” is not the way to describe the books we’re going to display in this series. But esteemed, anyway. Check out the entire series. *** *** *** HILOBROW COVER GALLERY: Orwell’s 1984 | […]

By: Matthew Battles

National Geographic News reports that the skull of a plague victim unearthed near Venice exhibits an unmistakable hallmark of treatment for vampirism. The woman’s mouth was forced open by a brick — a measure that […]