HILOBROW 3Q2026
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September 29, 2026
Here’s what HILOBROW published in July, August, and September 2026.
We’re grateful to our many stalwart contributors, as well as first-time contributors Mark Richardson, Charles Hughes, Jonny Auping, and Christmas Davis.
BEST OF HILOBROW: 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 1Q2026 | 2Q2026 | 3Q2026 | SNEAK PEEK 4Q2026.
Also see: HYPOCRITE IDLER 3Q2026.
During 3Q2026, HILOBROW published PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series of enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, on our favorite… Country Music of the Fifties (1954–1963)! Here’s the lineup:
Nadine Hubbs on Marty Robbins’ EL PASO | Elizabeth Nelson on Dave Dudley’s SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD | Lynn Peril on Jean Chapel’s WELCOME TO THE CLUB | David Cantwell on Porter Wagoner’s MY BONFIRE | Will Hermes on Johnny Cash’s RING OF FIRE | Mimi Lipson on Loretta Lynn’s I’M A HONKY TONK GIRL | Charles Hughes on Roger Miller’s YOU DON’T WANT MY LOVE | Eric Weisbard on Lefty Frizzell’s THE LONG BLACK VEIL | Steacy Easton on Jean Shepard’s A SATISFIED MIND | Josh Glenn on Johnny Cash’s THE REBEL — JOHNNY YUMA | Carlo Rotella on Buck Owens’ CLOSE UP THE HONKY TONKS | Annie Nocenti on Patsy Cline’s THREE CIGARETTES IN AN ASHTRAY | Douglas Wolk on Lucky Starr’s I’VE BEEN EVERYWHERE | Will Groff on Ray Price’s NIGHT LIFE | Jonny Auping on Willie Nelson’s CRAZY | Brian Berger on Ernest Tubb’s THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS | Jason Grote on Bill Browning and His Echo Valley Boys’ DARK HOLLOW | Peter Doyle on Willie Nelson’s FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY | Sam Glenn on Johnny Cash’s BIG RIVER | Mark Richardson on Elvis Presley’s BLUE MOON | Adam McGovern on Elvis Presley’s BLACK STAR / FLAMING STAR | Chris Spurgeon on Ricky Nelson’s BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY | Devin McKinney on George Hamilton IV’s ABILENE | Christmas Davis on Marty Robbins’ DON’T WORRY.
Josh Glenn is the PATSY 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 contributed new installments in her long-running column PLANET OF PERIL. 3Q2026 installments include:
TALKING CARS AND DUMMIES: How did Maxee know… everything? | KHAKI WACKY: A WWII-era moral panic | TOMBSTONE THE CAT: How did Tombstone become the mascot of the San Francisco Press Club?
Adam McGovern continued to deliver over-the-transom, on-tangent essays, dialogues and subjective scholarship via his monthly-ish series OFF-TOPIC. 3Q2026 series installments include:
THE DIVINE COMICBOOK: Details of God: Observing Ngozi Ukazu’s ORION | DECONSTRUCTION AHEAD: Kateryna Maksimentseva and the Grand Redesign.
The series MEDIA DIET explores the media “input” of a group of people — HILOBROW’s friends and contributors — whose “output” we admire. Here’s the 3Q2026 series lineup:
DEB CHACHRA | GORDON DAHLQUIST | JOE ALTERIO | VANESSA BERRY | MICHAEL GRASSO | DREW DANIEL | JIM HANAS | DEVIN McKINNEY | RANI SOM | ANNALEE NEWITZ | MARC WEIDENBAUM | SUSAN ROE | SÓNIA MARQUES.
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 3Q2026, the following title was published:
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.
“A story of the ongoing evolution of humanity that’s considered a classic of the genre. Radium Age’s new edition [of Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men] has a few enticing extras, including an introduction from IF THEN author Matthew De Abaitua and some truly excellent cover artwork from Seth depicting several stages in humanity’s development.” — Reactor’s Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2026
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 3Q2026 lineup:
- Jack London’s “Goliah” (1908/1910)
- Gertrude Atherton’s Black Oxen (1923, excerpt)
- Fred C. Smale’s “The V Force” (1913)
- Arthur Machen’s The Terror (1916/17)
All serialized Radium Age proto-sf stories and novels here.
EMANATIONS is a series of posts, each of which features 10 of Josh’s favorite examples of Radium Age-era fine art exploring a particular proto-sf-adjacent theme. The series’ 3Q2026 installments include:
DEHUMANIZATION: MECHANIZATION. DISENCHANTMENT: ATOMIC SUBLIME | CHROMATIC SUBLIME | DIAGRAMMATIC SUBLIME | GEOPHYSICAL SUBLIME | RE-ENCHANTMENT | SCIENCE FANTASY | STOP MOTION.
HILOBROW published further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a sampling of the 3Q2026 lineup:
Velimir Khlebnikov’s “LET LOBACHEVKIAN SPACE / STREAM…” | Kenneth Fearing’s NO CREDIT | Richard Wright’s I HAVE SEEN BLACK HANDS | I-to Wen’s THE DESERTED VILLAGE | William Carlos Williams’ LIGHT BECOMES DARKNESS | Hirato Renkichi’s ENSEMBLE | Angela Morgan’s CONQUERORS | Vladimir Mayakovsy’s THE CENTRAL STATION OF ALL EVENTS | Olaf Stapledon’s “IF GOD HAS NOT NOTICED…”
To see the full RADIUM AGE POETRY lineup, organized thematically, visit this page.
During 3Q2026 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 3Q2026:
1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931
RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 1Q2026 | 2Q2026 | 3Q2026. FULL SERIES INFO.
The series NOT TODAY, EBAY shared recent examples of stuff that Josh was tempted to purchase from eBay… but, heroically, didn’t. (Mostly.)
Josh’s other HILOBROW series include: SCREENSHOTS | PHOTO DUMP.
On to 4Q2026…