By: Joshua Glenn

10 best adventures from 75 years ago!

By: Gordon Dahlquist

He lodged the American noir in the post-war 20th century.

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE GUV’NOR (1935)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE BIG SLEEP (1946)

By: Carolyn Kellogg

Something in the city he gave us betrayed him.

By: Joshua Glenn

How do you like your egghead cooked?

By: HILOBROW

You know anything about rare books?

By: Joshua Glenn

Crime writer Robert B. Parker is dead. HiLobrow.com contributor Sarah Weinman, who writes “Dark Passages,” a monthly online mystery & suspense column for the Los Angeles Times, and “The Criminalist”, a monthly online column for […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Why we’re trained to scorn highbrows

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.

By: Lucy Sante

“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.” The celebrated first line of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by JAMES M. CAIN (1892-1977) tersely illustrates his verbal and narrative economy as well as […]

By: Lucy Sante

Witty and brutal, poetic and blunt.