The 1960s was a terrible decade for film and television comedy, but it did produce a stellar class of comedians working the beatnik demimonde:...

Attention gets a lot of attention these days. Mostly as currency, as in, how to make paying attention pay off. Switch one value proposition...

HiLobrow.com is not opposed to the “guest blogger.” But it’s a waxy concept, sticky and vexing, isn’t it? Guests have been deployed by too...

In an impulsive experiment in cross-platform grandiosity, I’ve published a collection of three stories that originally appeared here at HILOBROW in an edition for...

“That pig was telling me exactly what to do."

If there were to be a patron saint for misfit smart kids who do poorly in school, it would have to be MADELEINE L’ENGLE...

According to DAWN POWELL (1897-1965), there was no trick to writing satire. You just describe people as they are, and add a motive. If...

Over at the group philosophy blog Crooked Timber, John Holbo is conducting a discussion of sans serif type and its connection to twentieth-century Modernist...