We at HILOBROW are all alumni of JAY WARD’s (1920-89) Wossamatta U. After being well versed in the lowest form of humor, matriculates may...

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I can’t decide whether this is evidence of the book’s staying power, or a sign that its end is near: to commemorate the fortieth...

What is it about GRETA GARBO (1905-90) that set her apart from the other great Hollywood beauties — that makes us fetishize her, if...

High-, low-, no-, and hilobrow members of the New Gods Generation include: Alfred Bester, Charles Bukowski, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Cordwainer Smith, Dean Martin,...

Full disclosure: I was a Nintendo kid. The 900-lb. (Donkey Kong) gorilla’s advertising in the late Eighties worked on my zygote brain until I...

The New York Times Magazine recently published a cover story about Spike Jonze, whose cultural productions — for two decades, at this point —...

I’ve been a mere lurker at Infinite Summer, the online book club which sprang up to honor the late David Foster Wallace by exploring...