DON’T MIND IF I DO: a dialogue on Joanna Newsom’s Have One…

Alienated, analytical, funny social/cultural critics tend to be born in “3″ and “4″ years. Why?

Nothing prepares you for your first time.

Hip hop, zines, alt-culture comics, post-punk, hardcore…

A lost generation born from 1954-63.

Crowd­sourcing, in­direct col­laboration, Second Life…

Short attent­ion span? Frag­ment­ation and ab­sorption are models of inter­action.

The Boomers’ collective capacity for “imaginative suggestibility” is huge.

Darwin’s dangerous idea does more than explain the existence of life in…

Over at the group philosophy blog Crooked Timber, John Holbo is conducting…

The final paragraph of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth’s The Lurker at…

At Slate last week, Troy Patterson argued that books don’t need to…

In the Golden Age, when the fruit of knowledge hung heavy from…

In the New Yorker’s “Current Cinema” column this week, David Denby offer…

If Queen had not existed, it would by no means have been…

Here at Hilobrow.com, we agree with Bourdieu that aesthetics and lifestyle choices…

Every now and then, a well-meaning intellectual mounts a three-quarters-hearted defense of…

1) THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin….

1) THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin….

If Middlebrow is forever working to naturalize the unnatural, eternalize the temporary,…

Members of the generational cohort born from 1934-43 were in their teens…

Same as last week, except Gladwell Moore’s Clunk enters the list at…

Listening to NPR yesterday morning for the first time in a month…

A quick note about Neo-Dadaists and Pop Art.

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