Before Merry and Pippin, before Elvish, and before Orcs, J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892-1973) saved Beowulf. In 1936, he published Beowulf: The Monster and Its Critics...

… to Erik Davis, a regular contributor to HiLobrow.com, whose essay “Kosmiche: Krautrock and the Sublime” in the newly published book Krautrock (Black Dog,...

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2009.

Interviews with TODD HAYNES (born 1961) are well-stocked with the film-studies and queer-theory jargon the filmmaker absorbed at Brown and Bard, and several of...

The documentary films of FREDERICK WISEMAN (born 1930) are usually set in institutions and have institutional titles like Hospital and High School and Welfare....

Recently, the dulcet voice of HiLobrow cofounder Joshua Glenn has been broadcast on some of the finest frequencies on the FM band. On Monday,...

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

Over at the BN Review, today, HiLobrow.com coeditor Matthew Battles and HiLobrow.com contributor Joe Alterio (who is one of our favorite artists) have collaborated...