By: Joshua Glenn

WES ANDERSON’S Bottle Rocket (1996) raised the hopes of hilobrows everywhere, and his Rushmore (1998) fulfilled those hopes in spades. So what happened? Anderson once knew how to get a great performance out of his […]

By: Joshua Glenn

A year ago this month, I identified a generational cohort of Americans and Western Europeans: the New Gods. Born between 1914 and 1923, the New Gods are — to translate my periodization into the middlebrow-speak […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The French love anti-middlebrow American eccentrics.

By: Joshua Glenn

“Once I was an alchemist named Alec, of Holland”

By: Joshua Glenn

A hibrow (not highbrow) manifesto, of sorts

By: Joshua Glenn

Seinfeldian irony avant la lettre