By: Joshua Glenn

Do despots’ statues command us to topple them?

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A website of semiotic cultural and brand analysis, coedited by HiLobrow’s Joshua Glenn.

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Cliff Edwards & the danger of a tiny instrument.

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In author years, he’s still under forty!

By: Joshua Glenn

The kitschification of the pipe.

By: Joshua Glenn

“No Context” is an origin myth for Nobrow.

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Peggy Nelson

Earn the second HiLobrow merit badge: Pipe Dreams.

By: Joshua Glenn

The perils of pipe smoking!

By: Joshua Glenn

Sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair…

By: Joshua Glenn

Athletic eggheads!

By: Joshua Glenn

Her hair was long, her foot was light,/And her eyes were wild.

By: Joshua Glenn

The thinking man’s pastime.

By: Joshua Glenn

The man who rescued Harper’s from Middlebrow.

By: Joshua Glenn

Fritz Leiber’s SF satire The Silver Eggheads first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1959. In it, he imagined a future world in which books — cranked out at the rate […]