By: Joshua Glenn

Meet the dystopian, self-directed, anti-neoliberal Autotelics.

By: Tom Nealon

The Venn Platter explains the culinary world.

By: Joshua Glenn

Dark, skeptical, ironic, yet romantic Retro­gressivists.

By: Tom Nealon

Umami is the savory opium of the people.

By: Joshua Glenn

Alfred Lambert’s prehistoric golf shoes — from The Corrections.

By: Tom Nealon

Tom Nealon’s Foucauldian-condimental history of the West.

By: Joshua Glenn

Tom Joad’s “army last” shoes — from The Grapes of Wrath.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ed Gentry’s white tennis shoes — from Deliverance.

By: Mimi Lipson

Her young voice throbbed with friction and experience.

By: Lucy Sante

Robbed a train, recorded with the Sex Pistols.

By: Joshua Glenn

Chewie is middlebrow! Darth Vader is quatsch!

By: Joshua Glenn

The generation born 1824-33 is the first post-Romantic one.

By: Joshua Glenn

Or is it “Plastic Man”?

By: Joshua Glenn

Ringtone: “Mull of Kintyre”

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1834-1843 cohort paved the way for Modernism.