1Q2026 SNEAK PEEK

By: HILOBROW
December 21, 2025

Here’s what HILOBROW will publish in January, February, and March 2026.

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ENTHUSIASMS


From Bertolucci’s The Conformist

During 1Q2026, HILOBROW will publish CAHUN YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a series of enthusiastic posts, contributed by 25 HILOBROW friends and regulars, on our favorite… anti-fascist artworks! Here’s the lineup:

Mark Kingwell on ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON | Lynn Peril on ZAZOUS | Judith Zissman on DIE GEDANKEN SIND FREI (Pete Seeger) | Annie Nocenti on MEDIUM COOL | Mike Watt on FASCIST | William Nericcio on LALO ALCARAZ | Josh Glenn on THE LADY VANISHES | Carlo Rotella on INQUIETUD | Heather Quinlan on CASABLANCA | Adam McGovern on HEART OF GLASS (Mad Jenny) | Matthew Battles on WOODY’S GUITAR | Carl Wilson on STAND UP FOR JUDAS | Ramona Lyons on UPRIGHT WOMEN WANTED | Lucy Sante on CAMOUFLAGE | Adelina Vaca on TBD | Tom Nealon on THE BARON IN THE TREES | Nikhil Singh on PARIS PEASANT | Mandy Keifetz on THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED | Gordon Dahlquist on THE CONFORMIST | Alex Brook Lynn on WHY WE FIGHT | Gabriela Pedranti on THE ETERNAUT | Heather Kapplow on ANTI-FASCIST PASTA | Marc Weidenbaum on (WHAT’S SO FUNNY ’BOUT) PEACE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING | Peggy Nelson on PUPPETS | Sonia Marques on CARNATIONS AGITPROP.

Josh Glenn is the CAHUN series editor. He is very grateful to the series’ contributors, many of whom will donate their honoraria to Veterans Fighting Fascism.


LINOCUTS


© Lawrence Hutcheson. Click for closer view.

HILOBROW friend (and brother-in-law) Lawry Hutcheson will return with a fifth year’s worth of gorgeous linocut calendar art — via the series LINOCUT 2025. As a bonus, we’ll publish several of Lawry’s linocut prints showing the progressive demolition of the White Stadium in Boston’s Franklin Park.


MEDIA DIET


Holly Interlandi reading her favorite magazine

Inspired by the success of the MEDIA DIET series at our sister site SEMIOVOX, in March we’ll launch a series exploring the media “input” of a group of people — HILOBROW’s friends and contributors — whose “output” we admire. Here’s a sampling of our MEDIA DIET lineup:

MATTHEW BATTLES | ADRIENNE CREW | HOLLY INTERLANDI | MARK KINGWELL | MIMI LIPSON | ADAM McGOVERN | TOM NEALON | PEGGY NELSON | ANNIE NOCENTI | GARY PANTER | LYNN PERIL | JONATHAN PINCHERA | HEATHER QUINLAN | NICHOLAS ROMBES | CARLO ROTELLA | LUCY SANTE | JUDITH ZISSMAN | & more to come..


COCKY: THE OPERA


In 2010–11, HILOBROW serialized Cocky the Fox, a swearing-animal novel by our friend James Parker. In 2025, James began re-telling the Cocky saga… in the form of a musical, illustrated by Kristin Parker, here at HILOBROW. During 1Q2026, we’ll publish further installments of COCKY: THE OPERA.


OFF-TOPIC


Adam McGovern (shown here) will continue to deliver over-the-transom, on-tangent essays, dialogues and subjective scholarship via his monthly-ish series OFF-TOPIC.


ONE-OFF & OTHER SERIES


Collage by Jim Hanas

The limited series LOU REED’S NEPHEW will feature HILOBROW friend Jim Hanas’ collage art for his 2023–24 email serial — about work, art, tech, and scrimshaw — of that title. Lou Reed’s Nephew, Jim’s debut novel, will be published by Coffee House Press in 2027.

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Albert Einstein 1928 SALEM cigarette card

The series NOT TODAY, EBAY will continue to share 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.


RADIUM AGE PROTO-SF


HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn is editor of the RADIUM AGE series of reissued proto-sf adventures from the MIT Press. During 1Q2026, the following titles will be published.

  • E. and H. Heron’s Flaxman Low: Occult Detective (March 10), edited and introduced by Alexander B. Joy. “Flaxman Low is the Sherlock Holmes of the ghost world.” — The London Quarterly Review (1900)
  • Irene Clyde’s Beatrice the Sixteenth (March 31), introduced by Lucy Sante. “A gynarchic state, Armeria, where women marry each other and buy the babies on whom the future of Armeria depends… Readable and suggestive.” — The Occult Review (1909)

PS: After Spring 2026, the RADIUM AGE series will publish one title per season (Spring / Fall), for a total of two titles per year.

More exciting installments in this series, including anthologies and translations, are in the works. For the latest updates, keep an eye on this page.

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As we have done for over ten years now, HILOBROW will continue to serialize some of Josh’s favorite Radium Age proto-sf stories and novels. Here’s the 1Q2026 lineup:

  • Edward Johnson’s Light Ahead for the Negro (1904, excerpt)
  • Jean de La Hire’s The Mystery of the XV (1911, excerpt), trans. by Josh
  • Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men (1930, excerpt)
  • Erle Stanley Gardner’s “A Year in a Day” (1930)

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“Study the Old, but Create the New” (1919) by Varvara Stepanova

HILOBROW will publish further installments in the series RADIUM AGE POETRY. Here’s a sampling of the 1Q2026 lineup:

Carrie W. Clifford’s TOMORROW | Georg Heym’s UMBRA VITAE | Zhimo Xu’s NIGHT TRAIN | John Peale Bishop’s THE RETURN | Lola Ridge’s “SADIE QUIVERS LIKE A ROD” | Hirato Renkichi’s “HE DASHED THROUGH (THE WOUNDED CITY)” | William Empson’s THE WORLD’S END | Joaquín Pasos’ NORWAY | H.D.’s CITIES | OLAF STAPLEDON’s “LAST NIGHT…”

To see the full RADIUM AGE POETRY lineup, organized thematically, visit this page.

RADIUM AGE SERIES UPDATES: 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 1Q2025 | 2Q2025 | 3Q2025 | 4Q2025. FULL SERIES INFO.

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On to 1Q2026…

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