By: Joshua Glenn

The kitschification of the pipe.

By: Matthew Battles

The very rich diet of Nathan Myhrvold.

By: Matthew Battles

The future novel a cycle of apps?

By: Joshua Glenn

“No Context” is an origin myth for Nobrow.

By: Joshua Glenn

Alfred Lambert’s prehistoric golf shoes — from The Corrections.

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Joshua Glenn

Athletic eggheads!

By: Joshua Glenn

The man who rescued Harper’s from Middlebrow.

By: Joshua Glenn

Fritz Leiber’s SF satire The Silver Eggheads first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1959. In it, he imagined a future world in which books — cranked out at the rate […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Why were eggheads associated with sex at midcentury?

By: Charlie Jane Anders

Put Joseph Campbell back on the shelf, already!

By: Joshua Glenn

Millennial Middlebrow!

By: Joshua Glenn

Batman’s most egg-cellent foe.

By: Matthew Battles

To analyze is to misinterpret.

By: Joshua Glenn

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!