By: Matthew Battles

If we can make it there, we can make it anywhere.

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from STRIPES (1981)

By: Matthew Battles

The collision of story, spectacle, and catastrophe.

By: Joshua Glenn

He began as a critic of Middlebrow, but was suborned by it.

By: Matthew Battles

Arthur Godfrey learned that quatsch can be a fickle friend.

By: Matthew Battles

Cliff Edwards & the danger of a tiny instrument.

By: Joshua Glenn

“No Context” is an origin myth for Nobrow.

By: Joshua Glenn

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

By: Joshua Glenn

Lipsyte trumps Eggers

By: Joshua Glenn

A 1997 discourse on the lower and higher absurdities.

By: Erik Davis

In his sunken city, the dead cutie-pie lies dreaming.

By: Joshua Glenn

The final paragraph of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth’s The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) describes an uncanny scene that nicely limns the Cthulhu Mythos for those of us who may as yet be unfamiliar […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Why do middlebrows love to hate performance art?

By: Joshua Glenn

A quick note about Neo-Dadaists and Pop Art. This item is excerpted from yesterday’s essay on the Postmodernist Generation. Neo-Dada artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Yves Klein were born between 1924-33. Reacting […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The New York Times Magazine recently published a cover story about Spike Jonze, whose cultural productions — for two decades, at this point — have hovered uncannily around the edges of the four heimlich dispositions: […]