HILOBROW – Page 1301 – Josh Glenn, ed.

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

By Joshua Glenn

HARRY NILSSON, COMPUTER GENIUS

By Heather Quinlan

15^th
Jan

“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.” — William...

By Joshua Glenn

15^th
Jan

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (Don Van Vliet, born 1941) is — like Thelonious Monk or Alfred Jarry — an artist who describes a world a few...

By Lucy Sante

14^th
Jan

Should we throw out the babes with the bathwater? After unplugging them of course. But perhaps the uncanny devil is in the details. Maybe...

By Peggy Nelson

14^th
Jan

The most enduring recording of SLICK RICK (Richard Walters, aka MC Ricky D and Rick the Ruler, born 1965) is probably his guest appearance...

By Douglas Wolk

13^th
Jan

He defamiliarized science rather than taming it.

By Tim Carmody

12^th
Jan

While watching Die Hard the other night — one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years — I kept thinking about...

By Geoff Manaugh

12^th
Jan

As readers of HiLobrow know, Joshua Glenn shows the same mastery over the history of science fiction that a mad scientist exerts over his...

By Matthew Battles

12^th
Jan

Ellen (Gene Tierney) reads to Richard (Cornel Wilde) from his own (middlebrow) novel, Time Without End, shortly after meeting him on a train, in...

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