highbrow

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Highbrow or lowbrow, we have gathered here to serve humanity’s darkest impulses.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

This fatigue is encapsulated by Tara Taghizadeh in Highbrow Magazine:

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2023

Highbrow movies aimed at winning Oscars are falling flat at the box office.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2022

Plus: Highbrow new literary fiction in the form of Margaret Atwood’s “Testaments,” a much-anticipated sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and “Red at the Bone,” the new novel from “Brown Girl Dreaming” author Jacqueline Woodson.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2019

HOSTESS—"I sometimes wonder, Mr. Highbrow, if there is anything vainer than you authors about the things you write."

From More Toasts by Mosher, Marion Dix