By: Joshua Glenn

Looking back on it all, from the vantage point of a couple months, it’s apparent that the Susan Boyle Phenomenon (SBP) had very little to do with poor Susan Boyle (SB) herself. Susan Boyle’s judges […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy’d the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done… SO DEMANDS THE protagonist of Matthew Arnold’s 1852 […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Psyche­delic revel­ations about the arti­ficial nature of reality

By: Joshua Glenn

OUR READERS already know that HILOBROW has a problem with — in fact, an animus against — quatsch. As of today, we’re going to start fighting back against its reign of terror. Building on my […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The French love anti-middlebrow American eccentrics.

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: Joshua Glenn

When did highbrows start defending middlebrow?

By: Joshua Glenn

A hibrow (not highbrow) manifesto, of sorts