Some of our ideas about hilobrow found their first expression elsewhere. Here’s an item that was published — in a slightly different version —...

The French love anti-middlebrow American eccentrics.

Our circle of hermenautic friends has conjured up a dozen more highbrow (or at least classic) novels with lowbrow cover art. Here’s a selection...

Winston Moseley’s brutal murder of Kitty Genovese in the small hours of March 13, 1964 remains one of the most riveting stories in the...

Today, at long last, I saw the Ether Dome. It’s not a fan remix of a Mad Max movie, nor is it a fancifully...

We’re happy that French-Canadian animator Patrick Boivin likes to play with toys. Ever wonder who’d win a Bruce Lee/Iron Man action figure smackdown? Ah,...

Steampunk artist and impresario Hieronymus Isambard von Slatt has joined the ranks of good people observing Ada Lovelace Day. See how he makes his...

Here’s a quick post pointing to Hulu’s Cosmos channel, where Carl Sagan’s entire groundbreaking PBS series may be streamed for free. Sagan’s series introduced...