By: Joshua Glenn

An avatar of lobrow empathy.

By: Matthew Battles

WHY DO WE go to the woods, where the wild things are? Because it’s where the wild things are. Lars von Trier’s forthcoming film ANTICHRIST will debut at Cannes this May. Von Trier may be […]

By: James Parker

“You called the tune of irony from the first time you met me.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Some of our ideas about hilobrow found their first expression elsewhere. Here’s an item that was published — in a slightly different version — at the blog Brainiac on 10/24/06. The October issue of Elle […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The French love anti-middlebrow American eccentrics.

By: Joshua Glenn

Long Island, Summer of 1954 — what’s that hardcover book that Marilyn is reading? Daphne du Maurier’s Mary Anne? Irving Stone’s Love is Eternal? Can’t… quite… make it out. Can we zoom in, please? Oh!

By: Matthew Battles

National Geographic News reports that the skull of a plague victim unearthed near Venice exhibits an unmistakable hallmark of treatment for vampirism. The woman’s mouth was forced open by a brick — a measure that […]

By: Joshua Glenn

By: Joshua Glenn

When did highbrows start defending middlebrow?

By: Joshua Glenn

A hibrow (not highbrow) manifesto, of sorts

By: Joshua Glenn

Seinfeldian irony avant la lettre

By: Matthew Battles

Among the radio transmissions winging its way to other galaxies from Earth is “Are We Alone,” a program hosted by Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life) Project. Recent topics include “The Emergence […]