By: Joshua Glenn

Definitive proof of Jack Kirby’s Radium-Age sci-fi and fantasy influences!

By: Joshua Glenn

We want Radium-Age telepaths out of our heads!

By: Joshua Glenn

Are you synec­dochical enough to watch Star­ship Troopers?

By: Joshua Glenn

Some say the world will end in fire, some in ice — some in communist aliens!

By: Joshua Glenn

HiLo hooker books for the “Hooker Booker”

By: Joshua Glenn

Boston rock is about one thing only: stalking smart chicks.

By: Lucy Sante

You are the host of a virus; the virus is life; you are fucked.

By: Joshua Glenn

“The planet has a fever,” Al Gore told Republican skeptics in Congress on March 21. “If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says, ‘You have to intervene here,’ […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Mechanical humanoids who continue to haunt today’s sf.

By: Joshua Glenn

The influence of Radium-Age supermen remains a powerful one.

By: Sarah Weinman

If you know CORNELL WOOLRICH’s (1903-68) oeuvre at all, it’s most likely through the films of the standout directors who’ve interpreted it: Hitchcock’s Rear Window, for example, was based on Woolrich’s story “It Had to […]

By: James Parker

I had just removed his hand — gently, I hope — from my knee when the man in the off-white linen suit told me that he was the one who recruited Bob Dylan into the […]

By: Tor Aarestad

Perhaps the most prolific cartoonist ever for the high-middlebrow/nobrow New Yorker, and creator of the story that inspired the quatsch film Shrek, WILLIAM STEIG (1907-2003) might not seem an obvious hero for HiLobrow.com. Ladies and […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Her Earthsea fantasy novels — most signally, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), and The Farthest Shore (1972) — concern the education of a young wizard, and are recommended for those who […]

By: Tom Nealon

It is as impossible to think of the 20th century absent Cosimo from The Baron in the Trees (1957), by ITALO CALVINO (1923-1985), as it is to think of the 19th without Raskolnikov, the 18th […]