By: Joshua Glenn

Many alienated, analytical, funny social/cultural critics were born in cusp years.

By: Joshua Glenn

A lost generation born from 1954-63.

By: Joshua Glenn

Born between 1944 and 1953: the Blank Generation.

By: Joshua Glenn

They were anything but silent.

By: Joshua Glenn

Those born from 1924-33 are nearly impervious to Middlebrow’s discourse.

By: Joshua Glenn

The New Gods are stronger, faster, and smarter than other generations.

By: Joshua Glenn

“My starting point is always a feeling of partisan­ship, a sense of injustice.”

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1884-93 cohort sought to make it new, to begin again.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1874-83 cohort travel far and wide in search of new visions.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1864-73 cohort is a lost generation of absurdists and experimenters.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1854-63 cohort are spelunkers, in search of deep truths.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1844-53 cohort overreached — and worried about it.

By: Joshua Glenn

A year ago this month, I identified a generational cohort of Americans and Western Europeans: the New Gods. Born between 1914 and 1923, the New Gods are — to translate my periodization into the middlebrow-speak […]