The man who rescued Harper’s from Middlebrow.

Put Joseph Campbell back on the shelf, already!

Millennial Middlebrow!

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

A never-before-published interview with cartoonist Kim Deitch!

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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….

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

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

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A service that we may or may not continue to offer. Thanks…

The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933

High-, low-, no-, and hilobrow members of the New Gods Generation include:…

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

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

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Whenever hangovers become the topic of conversation at the swanky sorts of…

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The French love anti-middlebrow American eccentrics.

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National Geographic News reports that the skull of a plague victim unearthed…

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in a 1949 Harper’s Magazine essay [subscribers only] titled “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow.”…

Woolf in 1923

A hibrow (not highbrow) manifesto, of sorts