By: Holly Interlandi

Death’s ROCK-N-ROLL VICTIM

By: Toby Ferris

The world, we can philosophically conclude, is everything that is a mess.

By: Toby Ferris

There is a ball, yes there is a ball; but there is, above all else, an occult disposition.

By: Toby Ferris

Restless bewilderment, it seems, is our only recourse, our only liberty.

By: Alix Lambert

What, exactly, constitutes a life?

By: Matthew Battles

Confronting death, it’s borders all the way down.

By: Peggy Nelson

Jeff Coudriet, and the afterlife on Facebook.

By: Matthew Battles

Winston Moseley’s brutal murder of Kitty Genovese in the small hours of March 13, 1964 remains one of the most riveting stories in the annals of crime. In a famous New York Times story about […]

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: Matthew Battles

Atlantic correspondent James Parker is the hilobrow critic par excellence. Whether reviewing a biography of G. K. Chesterton or musing on the meaning of slasher films (as he does in the forthcoming issue of the […]

By: Matthew Battles

We’d like to think the L and the B signify Low Brow. But they more likely represent the initials of engraver M. Lucas Brunn, who made this memento mori in Germany around 1600. From the […]