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“‘Grow up!’ — that is the motto of Highbrow.”

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To analyze is to misinterpret.

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

A thrilling boardgame — brought to you by BP.

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Sucking the lifeblood from a spirited original.

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A 1997 discourse on the lower and higher absurdities.

Oil, catastrophe, & the jargon of shock & awe.

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Fake Authenticity defined and analyzed.

The Hero With a Thousand Price Points.

In his sunken city, the dead cutie-pie lies dreaming.

Amidst the lulz, awsm goes missing.

Daniel Clowes on Ghost World… before the movie.

What is the sound of cyberspace?

Erik Davis comes to Joanna Newsom’s music as acolyte & arbiter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Great Books

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

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