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… The Indian achievement is a combination of lightness and gravitas, of bridging the gap between the highbrow and the middlebrow, and rediscovering for itself the inextricable link between the body, mind and soul."
The weekly book reviews like such highbrow biographies as Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf (the New York Times Book Review ) and Jorge Castañeda's Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). Other reviewers fill their lists with celebrity memoirs, especially Mia Farrow's What Falls Away --a trend some critics bemoan.
Jack (Mike Nichols) on highbrow vs. lowbrow (22 seconds) :
The highbrow critics dissent, arguing that director Iain Softley has flattened the subtleties of James' novel.
You are quite right that the Brits are dead against coming over as theoretically highbrow.