By: Joshua Glenn

Why did we publish zines, back in the Nineties?

By: Matthew Battles

Tim Maly cliquesources a milestone in tech culture.

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Joshua Glenn

Is Said a universal or particular intellectual?

By: Joshua Glenn

Moldorf’s patent-leather shoes — from Tropic of Cancer.

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Joshua Glenn

Ignatius O’Reilly’s suede desert boots — from A Confederacy of Dunces.

By: Joshua Glenn

Ed Gentry’s white tennis shoes — from Deliverance.

By: Joshua Glenn

Chaplain Tappman’s rubber-soled shoes — from Catch-22.

By: Joshua Glenn

Stephen Dedalus’ broadtoed boots — from Ulysses.

By: Matthew Battles

Why are lowbrow utopias haunted by quatsch?

By: Matthew Battles

A delightful legacy technology of the bibliosphere.

By: Joshua Glenn

“‘Grow up!’ — that is the motto of Highbrow.”

By: Matthew Battles

Discovering love and forgiveness in the shaping of letters.

By: Joshua Glenn

The man who rescued Harper’s from Middlebrow.