HILOBROW – Page 1328 – Josh Glenn, ed.

NIGHT LIFE

By Will Groff

10 Radium Age art works in which the use of color evokes awe-inspiring scientific and technological breakthroughs.

By Joshua Glenn

20^th
Aug

“The domestic beast has been bred to special purpose; the tame animal is a wild thing brought to heel. The feral creature, by contrast,...

By Joshua Glenn

20^th
Aug

He introduced "outsideness" — cosmic dread — to science fiction.

By Erik Davis

19^th
Aug

The 1874-83 cohort travel far and wide in search of new visions.

By Joshua Glenn

19^th
Aug

OGDEN NASH (1902-71) was the American master of light verse, an art that has fallen on hard times, since it requires both gentle jokes...

By Douglas Wolk

18^th
Aug

The life and films of ROMAN POLANSKI (born 1933) in turn foreshadow, stalk and haunt each other. His films seem apolitical, but the claustrophobia...

By Annie Nocenti

17^th
Aug

This was the view out my back window in New York City for more than ten years. That time (1979-1990) was the heyday of...

By Lucy Sante

17^th
Aug

The very public tragedies in the life of TED HUGHES (1930-98) sometimes overshadow his work. He’s been blamed him for the murder/suicide of his...

By David Smay

16^th
Aug

Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire (2001), The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006), and In Defense of Food (2008), is a highbrow. I say...

By Joshua Glenn