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 […]

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 […]