The overall tone of the film is one of insecurity. The entire thing is played as a joke and the seldom moments that try to ...

This movie acknowledges the current reality that nothing really changed for the better, and misinformation has only gotten ...

Kerala’s gorgeous highlands are alive with pure tea bliss, where endless fluorescent-green tea shrubs stretch to the horizons ...

It was past midnight on July 26, 1970. The singing, the dancing, and the 21-piece orchestra had gone silent. James Brown’s show was over, and a cleanup crew was picking up after a crowd of thousands ...

Southern-accented candidates are heard as more conservative than those without a Southern accent, particularly to Democratic listeners.

The relationship the audience often has with media is what has become troubling.

The big twist is revealed after the first half hour. Everything we’ve seen so far is a play within the movie. Digger was a real person, but Cruise is actually playing a man named Curtis for a ...

**Editor's Note: Congratulations to Highbrow Magazine contributing writer Mark Orwoll, who won a 2026 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award (in the Culinary-Related Travel category) for this Highbrow ...

Traditional storytelling relies on a coherent linear plot that ends with a satisfying conclusion -- ideally leaving no questions for the audience. However, the ambiguous storytelling offered by an ...

In February of 1932, William Faulkner finished the manuscript for his seventh novel. He had spent the past three years writing the works that would make him immortal — The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay ...

The literary reputations of many mid-20th century American male writers appear to be, perhaps inevitably, in decline. Among those are several who share the same first name—John O’Hara, John Barth, ...

The other day I was chatting with a childhood friend on China’s version of WhatsApp or Telegram, known as WeChat. At one point I had to make a reference to the biblical flooding that befell Beijing ...