By: Joshua Glenn

ICONIC MICKEY

By: David Smay

His role as Harold made him an icon: flattened, but illuminated and sacred.

By: Adrienne Crew

Her steely eroticism lent a sense of refinement to depraved encounters.

By: Joshua Glenn

A living superman shuffles off this mortal coil.

By: Lynn Peril

A dancer by training, and an iconoclast by nature.

By: Joshua Glenn

Do despots’ statues command us to topple them?

By: Erik Davis

Catherine Yrowonde’s Lucky Mojo cornucopia.

By: Peggy Nelson

Earn the second HiLobrow merit badge: Pipe Dreams.

By: Peggy Nelson

She asked what we wanted, & all we said was “more.”

By: Peggy Nelson

When the myth cracked, the man showed through.

By: Peggy Nelson

Shatner the actor figured out how to gain creative leverage on Shatner the icon.

By: Joshua Glenn

Chess sets, and Scrabble, certainly. But not Battleship, Mastermind, Risk, Monopoly, Clue? Bicycles, and pipes (the kind you smoke). But not skateboards or cigarettes, muscle cars or cigars? Teapots and typewriters. But not coffeepots or […]

By: Annie Nocenti

Star-spangled motorcycle daredevil EVEL KNIEVEL (1938 –2007) showed the world you can be fearless and self-destructive and — if you understand hype — become an American icon. He stole his first bike. He jumped a […]

By: Matthew Battles

WHAT DO YOU think it means? The New York Times reported yesterday that some psychologists were feeling panicky about physician James Heilman’s decision to upload the canonical Rorschach inkblots to Wikipedia along with their most-frequently […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Earlier this week, Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam gave my generational periodization scheme a shout-out. Beam writes: Glenn has devoted considerable time — too much time, frankly — to slicing up the post World War […]