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 […]

By: Matthew Battles

The surface of OGLE-350c, like so many other superearths Sevin and Vulpes had visited, was composed of a mixture of crumbly xenolith and light, rubbery, frozen organics mounded like ice cream — if ice cream […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

By: Joshua Glenn

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

By: Joshua Glenn

“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.” — William Steinitz, Austrian-American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion, […]

By: Matthew Battles

As readers of HiLobrow know, Joshua Glenn shows the same mastery over the history of science fiction that a mad scientist exerts over his army of murderous fembots. While Roxxxy the Robot’s makers might claim […]

By: HILOBROW

Ellen (Gene Tierney) reads to Richard (Cornel Wilde) from his own (middlebrow) novel, Time Without End, shortly after meeting him on a train, in John M. Stahl’s Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Her homicidal jealousy […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Chess sets, and Scrabble, certainly. But not Battleship, Mastermind, Risk, Monopoly, Clue? Bicycles, and pipes (the kind you smoke). But not skateboards or cigarettes, muscle cars or cigars? Teapots and typewriters. But not coffeepots or […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… I have come to the personal conclusion […]

By: Matthew Battles

This image comes from the sad, strange book children’s book The Dead Bird, by Good Night Moon author Margaret Wise Brown and Remy Charlip (1958). (SPOILER ALERT an extract: “And every day, until they forgot, […]

By: HILOBROW

“One may be strong intellectually and socially idiotic, as distinctly represented by this head and face.” *** According to Louis Allen Vaught, the purpose of Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902) is to acquaint readers “with […]

By: Peggy Nelson

Happy New Year! [Jump! dir. Peggy Nelson, 2006, vocals and guitar by Jeff Stern] *** Artists in residence archive.

By: Peggy Nelson

This concludes the Portrait of the Artist as Attention Span I started at the beginning of the month. [Salvador Dalí, 1947, photo by Bob Sandberg for Look Magazine] There’s been some buzz recently about how […]