HILOBROW – Page 1345 – Josh Glenn, ed.

I’VE BEEN EVERYWHERE

By Douglas Wolk

Jim Hanas on: The Fall, The Possessed, Upper Middle

By Jim Hanas

29^th
May

“To and fro/Stop and go/That’s what makes the world go round…” Ugh. I pity the fool who sees Disney’s 1963 adaptation of The Sword...

By Joshua Glenn

28^th
May

A key theoretical progenitor of Burning Man.

By Tor Aarestad

27^th
May

HORROR IS CRUCIAL to human experience. Like sex, innocence, and despair, the fear of death is a wellspring of all kinds of creative activity;...

By Matthew Battles

27^th
May

Witty and brutal, poetic and blunt.

By Lucy Sante

26^th
May

PAM GRIER (b. 1949) was the Joan of Arc of late-night UHF-TV, when such a thing still existed. Starting with The Big Dollhouse (1971),...

By Joe Alterio

25^th
May

MILES DAVIS (1926-91) was the son of a dentist, but visited a primal Oedipal rebellion upon the smug bourgeois sadism of his father’s profession....

By Greg Rowland

24^th
May

I know it’s a bold claim, but JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-96) just might be the greatest poet ever to be rejected by the Soviet School...

By David Smay

24^th
May

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. MAY 24 I know...

By HILOBROW