CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (12)

JOSEPHINE BAKER, SPY

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By Adam McGovern

FROM EACH…

10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.

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By Joshua Glenn

11th
May

Venetia Phair (1919–2009) or, Alien Naming Conventions

VENETIA PHAIR (née Burney), who named the planet Pluto, died on April 30 in Banstead, Surrey. She was 90. In March 1930, Eleven-year old...
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By Matthew Battles

11th
May

Hilobrow Cover Art (10)

This is the final installment in our HiLobrow Cover Art series. Thanks to Luc Sante, Jonathan Lethem, and everyone else who sent in examples....
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By Joshua Glenn

10th
May

Marcel Mauss

Dreyfusard and socialist, political activist, gregarious, bohemian and bon vivant, inspiration to Georges Bataille and the Situationists: although his Uncle Emile (Durkheim) was an...
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By Tor Aarestad

10th
May

Donovan

Unfairly dismissed by Sixties rock critics as a fey and twee Dylan wannabe, DONOVAN (born 1946) was clearly the unacknowledged legislator of all things...
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By David Smay

10th
May

Fred Astaire

Choreography is just an idea — the execution is the manifestation.
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By Peggy Nelson

10th
May

HiLo Heroes, May 10-12

HiLobrow gives thanks and praise to Peggy Nelson, David Smay, Mimi Lipson, Tor Aarestad, James Parker, and Greg Rowland, who contributed shout-outs to the...
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By HILOBROW

08th
May

Dalai Lobrow

An avatar of lobrow empathy.
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By Joshua Glenn

07th
May

Hilobrow Cover Art (9)

Special edition in the HiLobrow Cover Art series! Not esteemed fiction, this time, but classical music with racy cover imagery. Check out the entire...
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By Joshua Glenn