father and son stories | Highbrow Magazine
WEB1 day ago · Later my father put on a gray sweater. We ate chili by a fire. We talked about baseball. My father smiled. He was growing a beard. One day he would be smiling in the Denver Airport of Death, but today he was smiling under normal non-death conditions; breathing without making fearful choking faces, with his bowl of chili, and his facial hair, that together signified peerless health and ...
Satan, Saturn, and Rock’n’Roll: The Mythology of the 27 Club
WEBAug 21, 2014 · The coincidence is so eerie, and yet so compelling, that the curse of the 27 Club has become one of rock music’s best-known mythologies. Rock ‘n’ Roll is, after all, a genre driven by obsession with the supernatural and the occult. Castigated since its earliest days as “the devil’s music” for the way it seemed to infuse teenagers ...
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WEBSep 10, 2024 · intellectual magazines. A Brief History of The New Republic: From Lippmann to Peretz to Hughes. Benjamin Wright. The New Republic was on the verge of collapse just shy of its 100 th birthday. But in March of 2012, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes swooped down to its rescue, saving the iconic magazine …
Franz Kafka and the Politics of a Novel | Highbrow Magazine
WEBMay 6, 2013 · While Kafka emerged as one of the most significant and widely read modern authors in the US and Western Europe right after the Second World War, his works were ostracized and banned throughout the entire domain of the “Real Socialism,” which sprawled out from Moscow to the border of East-Berlin. Until its first publication in Moscow in 1965, Kafka’s Trial was merely a mysterious ...
Remembering Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius of Silent Comedy
WEBSep 12, 2014 · One argument for the eclipse of Lloyd – who has been referred to by film historian Kevin Brownlow as “the third genius” of silent comedy (along with Keaton and Chaplin) and by others as the “King of Daredevil Comedy” – is that though he produced many of his own films, he never took a directing or writing credit, as did the other two ...
Actor Kristoffer Polaha’s Journey to Stardom - Highbrow Magazine
WEBApr 8, 2021 · Rather than follow “America’s Prince” with increasingly important TV and movie roles, Polaha landed a string of starring appearances in television shows that seemed promising, launched … and then stalled … time and again. From 2004 to 2012, Polaha had key roles in the nighttime soap “North Shore,” the sitcom “Miss Guided,” the romantic comedy “Valentine,” the relationship ...
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How One Grieving Artist Turned Tragedy Into Art
WEBOct 23, 2020 · Before the September 11, 2001, attacks, before the current pandemic, grief of such cataclysmic proportions seemed unimaginable for many. But when sculptor Suse Lowenstein’s son Alex, along with his schoolmates, was lost in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, unimaginable grief became a tragic reality for her.
‘Montana Story’ Is a Mellow, Lyrical Family Drama
WEBMay 28, 2022 · The light and stillness turn into a reproach when the endless horizon begins to contract, and the fealty to violence upon the body, the soul, and the land becomes unbearable. Montana Story enacts a kind of generational reckoning; Cal and Erin strive to clear up the eyesores of the past by choosing to recognize the skyline afresh.
A Day in the Life of a Film Critic - Highbrow Magazine
WEBMay 20, 2019 · Tara Taghizadeh. This is an interview with longtime film critic Forrest Hartman, who also worked as a contributing writer at Highbrow Magazine. In an interview with Highbrow Magazine Founding Editor and Publisher Tara Taghizadeh, Hartman discusses his all-time favorite films and directors, how Hollywood has evolved over the decades, and the ...