By: Joshua Glenn

The kitschification of the pipe.

By: Joshua Glenn

“No Context” is an origin myth for Nobrow.

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Peggy Nelson

Earn the second HiLobrow merit badge: Pipe Dreams.

By: Joshua Glenn

The perils of pipe smoking!

By: Joshua Glenn

Sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair…

By: Joshua Glenn

Athletic eggheads!

By: Joshua Glenn

Her hair was long, her foot was light,/And her eyes were wild.

By: Joshua Glenn

The thinking man’s pastime.

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

How they smoked during the Radium Age.

By: Joshua Glenn

Why were eggheads associated with sex at midcentury?

By: Joshua Glenn

Pipes across the political spectrum

By: Joshua Glenn

Charming vs. Creepy is the battle of our age.