HILOBROW 2Q2026
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June 27, 2026
Here’s what HILOBROW published in April, May, and June 2026.
We’re grateful to our many stalwart contributors.
BEST OF HILOBROW: 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 1Q2026 | 2Q2026 | SNEAK PEEK 3Q2026.
Also see: HYPOCRITE IDLER 2Q2026.
During 2Q2026, HILOBROW published OMAC YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series of enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, on our favorite… Seventies (1974–1983) sf novels and comics! Here’s the lineup:
Mark Kingwell on RIDDLEY WALKER | Carlo Rotella on THE FACE | Sara Ryan on DREAMSNAKE | Matthew Battles on THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST | Ramona Lyons on HIGH-RISE | Adam McGovern on SHADRACH IN THE FURNACE | Deb Chachra on THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY | Tom Nealon on DHALGREN | Michael Grasso on FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID | Stephanie Burt on BRIGHTNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR | Nikhil Singh on SABRE | Gordon Dahlquist on VALIS | Miranda Mellis on THE DISPOSSESSED | Marc Weidenbaum on SOFTWARE | Peggy Nelson on THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER | Josh Glenn on ENGINE SUMMER | Mimi Lipson on A SCANNER DARKLY | Douglas Wolk on THRILLER | David Hirmes on ARZACH | Anthony Miller on THE SHOCKWAVE RIDER | Annie Nocenti on JIMBO | Seth on MR. MACHINE | Alex Brook Lynn on JUDGE DREDD | Joe Alterio on THE INCAL | Jason Grote on JOSIE AND THE ELEVATOR.
Josh Glenn is the OMAC series editor. He is very grateful to the series’ contributors, many of whom donated their honoraria to Veterans Fighting Fascism.
HILOBROW friend and Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons author Lynn Peril has recently resumed her 2016–2019 HILOBROW column PLANET OF PERIL. 2Q2026 installments in the series include:
NANCY RUNS THE BOOKMOBILE | NURSE IN VIETNAM | THE PRETTIEST POLITICIAN.
Adam McGovern continued to deliver over-the-transom, on-tangent essays, dialogues and subjective scholarship via his monthly-ish series OFF-TOPIC. 2Q2026 series installments include:
AUTOBIOLOGY: JOAN SEMMEL’s figures of legend | BAD ACTORS: Speaking freely with THE SHADOWER’s Peter & Maria Hoey.
Plus the following OFF-OFF-TOPIC micro-installments: MAN OF STEEL: Melvin Edwards’ life lesson | PUNK’S GOT CANCER: Ambulance-core: HEAVY HEALING recommended | DORIAN RAINBOW: Body-memoir, in progress | BATTLE OF THE BINGE: Playing loud with THE TALL PINES and DEAN HASPIEL | THE HUMOR, THE HUMOR: Punisher: A time for farce?
Earlier this year, we kicked off a series exploring the media “input” of a group of people — HILOBROW’s friends and contributors — whose “output” we admire. Here’s the 2Q2026 MEDIA DIET lineup:
HOLLY INTERLANDI on: Monocle, metal, horror stories | NICHOLAS ROMBES on: 50 Watts Books, Vaclav Havel, the vibes of recent movies | ANNIE NOCENTI on: Burn Book, Deadwood, Bugonia | JONATHAN PINCHERA on: Instagram reels, the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Ren & Stimpy | MATTHEW BATTLES on: La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, Judee Sill, Scavengers Reign | CAROLYN KELLOGG on: WFMU’s Wake ‘n Bake, history, Fitzcarraldo | GARY PANTER on: Godzilla Minus One, Popeye comics, The Devil’s Triangle | CHARLIE MITCHELL on: Mary Oliver, TrueAnon, The Blindboy Podcast | JUDITH ZISSMAN on: “Ellis Island,” Moon Lists, Taskmaster | FLOURISH KLINK on: the Gospel, a Book of Common Prayer bot, singing | SETH on: old TV broadcasts, The Leopard, The Victorian Kitchen Garden | TOM NEALON on: Czarface, Parable of the Sower, Gargantua & Pantagruel | HEATHER QUINLAN on: The Master and Margarita, Hard ’N Heavy, sports fandom.
And here’s an index page for the series.
HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn is editor of the RADIUM AGE series of reissued proto-sf adventures from the MIT Press. During 2Q2026, the team prepared the following titles for publication:
- Fall 2026: Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men (abridged edition; originally p. 1930), with a new Introduction by Matthew De Abaitua. “Last and First Men is a seminal work of cosmological SF — a philosophical examination of the future evolution of humanity, inspirational to Arthur C. Clarke and so many of Stapledon’s successors. Great to see it included in The MIT Press’s Radium Age series.” — Charles Stross.
- Spring 2027: Mothership Rising: Afrofuturism in the Radium Age (anthology), edited and afterword by Lisa Yaszek, introduced by Nisi Shawl. We’ll see page proofs in August.
From this point on, the Radium Age series will publish one title per season / two titles per year. Exciting installments in the works include anthologies and single-author collections, three of which are currently being translated into English. For the latest updates, please keep an eye on this page.
As we have done since 2012, HILOBROW serialized some of Josh’s favorite Radium Age proto-sf stories and novels. Here’s the 2Q2026 lineup:
- Frigyes Karinthy’s Voyage to Faremido (1916, excerpt)
- Michael Williams’ “The Mind Machine” (1919, excerpt)
- Edmond Hamilton’s “The Metal Giants” (1926)
All serialized Radium Age proto-sf stories and novels here.
In April, Josh kicked off EMANATIONS, a series of posts featuring 10 of his favorite examples of Radium Age-era fine art that explore a particular proto-sf-adjacent theme. The series’ 2Q2026 installments include:
CATASTROPHE: DECLINE & FALL | DYING EARTH | ECO-CATASTROPHE. COSMIC AWE: DEEP TIME | STARS WHEEL IN PURPLE | IS THERE LIFE ON MARS. DEHUMANIZATION: CYBORG MANIFESTO.
HILOBROW published further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a sampling of the 2Q2026 lineup:
e.e. cummings’ “SHE BEING BRAND/-NEW” | Babette Deutsch’s FOURTH DIMENSION | Zora Neale Hurston’s PASSION | Harriet Monroe’s BEYOND THE SUNS | Mykola Bazhan’s ZURMA SWARM | Hirato Renkichi’s POEM OF DIRECTNESS | Leslie Pinckney Hill’s TO THE CHINESE | Lola Ridge’s REVEILLE | Don Marquis’ UNREST | Ambrose Bierce’s FAME | Mina Loy’s HUMAN CYLINDERS | Aleksei Kruchenykh’s AIR-FORTRESS.
To see the full RADIUM AGE POETRY lineup, organized thematically, visit this page.
During 2Q2026 Josh has continued to build out the RADIUM AGE POETRY index linked to above, as well as the RADIUM AGE ART index. He has also begun sorting — into the same categories as these other indices — the Radium Age proto-sf novels and stories collected in the earlier series RADIUM AGE TIMELINE. Here are the RADIUM AGE TIMELINE installments that were retrofitted during 2Q2026:
1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926
RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 1Q2026 | 2Q2026. FULL SERIES INFO.
During 2Q2026 we didn’t publish any new installments in James Parker’s swearing-animal musical, COCKY: THE OPERA.
The series NOT TODAY, EBAY shared recent examples of stuff that Josh was tempted to purchase from eBay… but, heroically, didn’t.
Josh’s other HILOBROW series include: SCREENSHOTS | PHOTO DUMP.
On to 3Q2026…