By: HILOBROW

No one can feel any degree of revenge without the faculty of…

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

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