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

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

A lost generation born from 1954-63.

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

Long before Alan Moore asked “Who will watch the Watchmen?” Radium-Age (1904-33)…

A prehistoric track stretches across 250 miles from the Dorset coast to…

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…

Members of the generational cohort born from 1924-33 were in their teens…

Members of the generational cohort born from 1914-23 were in their teens…

William Strauss and Neil Howe claim that a “GI Generation” (renamed the…

Though Middlebrow wouldn’t triumph until midcentury, and though its most perspicacious critics…

Gertrude Stein and others (including Strauss & Howe) have lumped Ezra Pound,…

Members of the Modernist Generation, born from 1884-93, were in their teens…

In today’s New York Times Week in Review section, Mary Jo Murphy…

“The domestic beast has been bred to special purpose; the tame animal…

The Psychonauts, born from 1874 to 1883, are a generation of expatriates,…

The Anarcho-Symbolists are a lost generation, overshadowed by their immediate elders (the…

I’ve named this 1854-63 generation after one of its members: Percival Lowell,…

“There are things done today in electrical science which would have been…

THE THEORY STARTS like this: Plunged into despondency by the 1992 election,…

Earlier this week, Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam gave my generational periodization…

In a recent Hilobrow.com post, I casually asserted that the Baby Boomers…

The oldest Boomers turn 65 this year, and the youngest turn 56….