PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2)

SIX DAYS ON THE ROAD

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By Elizabeth Nelson

MEDIA DIET

Deb Chachra on: the Library app, Midnight Radio, Vancouver museums.

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By Deb Chachra

24th
Sep

John Brunner

The popularity of apocalyptic fiction in the Sixties (1964-73), it has been suggested, indicates that SF writers had become bored and suspicious of utopian...
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By Joshua Glenn

23rd
Sep

Survivor: The Island of Dr. Moreau

“Exile—Exile,” gabbled the Ape-man.
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By Matthew Battles

23rd
Sep

Postmodernists: 1924-33

Those born from 1924-33 are nearly impervious to Middlebrow's discourse.
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By Joshua Glenn

23rd
Sep

John Coltrane

Until 1964, JOHN COLTRANE (1926-67) was a virtuoso, blasting out bebop as wing-man to the likes of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, and later...
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By Patrick Cates

22nd
Sep

Joan Jett

The time: 1977. The place: the hinterlands of Wisconsin. My friend Jacqué (pronounced “Jackie,” of course) and I are huddled together in her smoked-mirror-tiled...
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By Lynn Peril

21st
Sep

Ambivalent about New Age?

HILOBROW is superficially similar, as we’ve noted, to Middlebrow. So HiLobrow despises Middlebrow for the same reason that idlers detest slackers, and punks detest...
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By Joshua Glenn

21st
Sep

Middlebrow Bestsellers — this week

A service that we may or may not continue to offer. Thanks to our friends at the New York Times for doing the primary...
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By Joshua Glenn

21st
Sep

The Best Book Ever

In the 1990s, the artists Komar and Melamid began polling art lovers to discover the world’s ideal painting. I’m curious to learn whether we...
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By Matthew Battles