FROM EACH…

10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.

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By Joshua Glenn

CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (11)

HARRY NILSSON, COMPUTER GENIUS

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By Heather Quinlan

31st
Jan

Grant Morrison

GRANT MORRISON’s (born 1960) house was on a distinguish­ed street in Glasgow, purchased with the proceeds from his 1989 Batman graphic novel, Arkham Asylum....
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By Matthew De Abaitua

30th
Jan

Radium-Age Robots

Mechanical humanoids who continue to haunt today's sf.
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By Joshua Glenn

30th
Jan

Pop Arcana (1)

The RWS Tarot is more like 1900s comic strips than Middle Age esoterica.
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By Erik Davis

30th
Jan

Hilobrow Podcast: ROBOTS

Here it is: the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” HiLobrow.com’s Radium Age Science Fiction podcast, recorded every month (as of January ’10) at...
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By Joshua Glenn

30th
Jan

Richard Brautigan

One of America’s greatest comic writers, RICHARD BRAUTIGAN (1935-84) was also, shockingly, one of its most successful. Raised in the northwest by a waitress...
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By Brian Berger

29th
Jan

Bookfuturists of the world, unite (tonight)!

There’s a new disposition on the rise: that of the Bookfuturist, someone who embraces the book’s history and its technological future. Bookfuturists love books...
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By Matthew Battles

29th
Jan

W.C. Fields

Given his much-imper­son­ated rasp and gift for Menckenesque quips (“Horse sense is the thing a horse has that keeps it from betting on people”),...
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By Franklin Bruno

29th
Jan

Holden’s History of the United States

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is how the Arawak men and women, naked,...
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By HILOBROW