By: James Parker

“I am here to take this story by the throat.”

By: James Parker

“Fuck the rhyme, the sacred slime / that sticks the words together!”

By: James Parker

“I live in my rhyme. / I get killed all the time.”

By: HILOBROW

… and the exploding toilet, and the frozen brain.

By: Peggy Nelson

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By: James Parker

Man bites dogg­erel in this, the first install­ment of a new series.

By: Matthew Battles

AMIDST THE CYCLE of encomiums spurred by Michael Jackson’s death last week, his weirdness has been treated as an unfortunate epiphenomenon and distraction from his greatness. But the weird — a thoroughgoing weird without stint […]

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 […]