By: Joshua Glenn

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

By: Ingrid Schorr

To think, to heal, and to write.

By: Joshua Glenn

A 1997 discourse on the lower and higher absurdities.

By: Tom Nealon

His criticism was easy to parody, infuriating, and brilliant.

By: Joshua Glenn

How can the Middle East win American hearts and minds?

By: Mark Kingwell

He invented cultural criticism.

By: Peggy Nelson

No one writes edge-of-your-seat, action-packed, cinematic cliffhangers better than NEAL STEPHENSON (born 1959), and that’s just the talking-heads parts of his novels of ideas. He mashes up solid theoretical discourse (physics, cryptography, philosophy, semiotics) with […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Speaking of brows. You know Cadbury’s 2009 viral ad, “Eyebrows”? The one in which two children — peculiarly self-composed, knowing, mysterious, alien-like children — wiggle their eyebrows to the beat of Freestyle Express’s “Don’t Stop […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The French love anti-middlebrow American eccentrics.