By: Joshua Glenn

He rejected the either/or choice of conventional morality vs. cynicism.

By: Greg Rowland

Socratic irony… elenctic method, or Skrull stratagem?

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from STRIPES (1981)

By: Joshua Glenn

Rebooting is no nostalgia trip — nor is it snarkily ironic.

By: David Smay

A mischief maker who reinvented himself as a master of rue.

By: Joshua Glenn

cure the mockery cure the mockery cure the mockery

By: Joshua Glenn

“No Context” is an origin myth for Nobrow.

By: Joshua Glenn

Lipsyte trumps Eggers

By: Joshua Glenn

A 1997 discourse on the lower and higher absurdities.

By: Joshua Glenn

Fake Authenticity defined and analyzed.

By: Erik Davis

In his sunken city, the dead cutie-pie lies dreaming.

By: Joshua Glenn

Daniel Clowes on Ghost World… before the movie.

By: Joshua Glenn

The final paragraph of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth’s The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) describes an uncanny scene that nicely limns the Cthulhu Mythos for those of us who may as yet be unfamiliar […]

By: Joshua Glenn

A quick note about Neo-Dadaists and Pop Art. This item is excerpted from yesterday’s essay on the Postmodernist Generation. Neo-Dada artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Yves Klein were born between 1924-33. Reacting […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Seinfeldian irony avant la lettre