By: Joshua Glenn

The French love anti-middlebrow American eccentrics.

By: Matthew Battles

National Geographic News reports that the skull of a plague victim unearthed near Venice exhibits an unmistakable hallmark of treatment for vampirism. The woman’s mouth was forced open by a brick — a measure that […]

By: Joshua Glenn

When did highbrows start defending middlebrow?

By: Joshua Glenn

A hibrow (not highbrow) manifesto, of sorts

By: Matthew Battles

Among the photos making the social-media rounds in the aftermath of the Turkish Airlines crash in Amsterdam yesterday was this haunting image: It was posted on Twitter by @Serguei with a caption (in French): “It” […]