By: Jason Grote

Frederick Wertham wasn’t wrong…

By: Peggy Nelson

Catwalk on the wild side.

By: Peggy Nelson

A badge for adventurers, virtual and real.

By: HILOBROW

We like nice experience factors.

By: Peggy Nelson

Your search is over.

By: Peggy Nelson

Earn the second HiLobrow merit badge: Pipe Dreams.

By: Peggy Nelson

Earn the first HiLobrow merit badge: The Radium Age.

By: Joshua Glenn

Athletic eggheads!

By: Joshua Glenn

Notes toward a musical based on DIPLOMACY, a strategic board game set in Europe just before the beginning of World War I. Invented in 1954, DIPLOMACY features no dice or other randomizing factors; instead, seven […]

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

“I’m just sitting here making myself nauseous/With this ugly polenta that stinks.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Why were eggheads associated with sex at midcentury?

By: Joshua Glenn

A deadly duet between the Russian Tsar and the President of France.

By: Joshua Glenn

Now the time is here/For Armand Fallières to spread fear…

By: Joshua Glenn

Batman’s most egg-cellent foe.