By: Edrie

I was locked inside this box naked, and nearly blind and deaf

By: Joshua Glenn

Did Ing­mar Berg­man invent the death-playing-chess meme?

By: Peggy Nelson

The Beatles were crowd­sourced from the start; the latest mash­up is brilliant.

By: Edrie

Courtney Love makes Twit­ter worth it, and vice versa.

By: HILOBROW

When did murder in a bookshop or library become a middlebrow meme? Example: After all, although some bookshops and libraries may be middlebrow, there’s nothing inherently middlebrow about these institutions. It’s their sentimentalization by “booklovers” […]

By: Edrie

Mali Sastri is the singer of the Boston and New York-based band Jaggery . I sat down with her to chat about an obsession that has taken her from the deepest archives of the New […]

By: Edrie

If you build it (to look real) they will come, seems to be the mantra of current big budget animation. Think blow-out live action mixed with fantastical worlds like Avatar and the upcoming Alice in […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess MIRANDA: Sweet lord, you play me false. FERDINAND: No, my dearest love, I would not for the world. MIRANDA: Yes, for a score of kingdoms you […]

By: Edrie

A visual representation of what the next month of Artist in Residence posts will bring. I was having a beer one night, and I saw “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” scrawled in soap, I suppose, […]

By: Edrie

Once More With Feeling Hilo­brow.com asks you kindly to forgive us our Buffy reference, but it couldn’t be more appropriate here as we introduce our second Artist in Residence: Edrie, who combines ninja-like zombie/vampire fighting […]

By: Matthew Battles

Darwin’s dangerous idea does more than explain the existence of life in its myriad forms and set forth a materialist worldview that makes Biblical literalists foam at the mouths. It’s also as meme with enormous […]

By: Joshua Glenn

*** An occasional series, which follows up on themes explored in the ten-part HiLobrow Cover Art series.

By: Joshua Glenn

My little love, do you remember, Ere we were grown so sadly wise, Those evenings in the bleak December, Curtain’d warm from the snowy weather, When you and I play’d chess together, Checkmated by each […]

By: HILOBROW

You know anything about rare books?

By: Marcia Kogler-Vegan

Your digest of what’s what! Jersey Shore star Paul “Pauly D” Delvecchio is known for his outspokenness in matters ecclesiastical, but the strength of his feelings on the Church’s impending beatification of Cardinal John Henry […]