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Remembering the House of Stone
When I really focus, tune out every distraction, I can smell Zimbabwe. I can smell the diesel from the broken down omnibuses whose corroded engines fill the skies with grey smog and my lungs with a...
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The Year in Blame
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.Blessings be for the ascent of the phrase “taking the L” this year because we needed an easy shorthand...
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Where to Begin
installment5_medium.jpg-resize.jpgMouthful is a new monthly column about the author’s relationship with food, ten years into recovery from anorexia and bulimia.I arrived in Denver around midnight on...
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The Year in the Endless Present
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.For me, it starts with Solaris. Not the Stanislaw Lem novel or the original Andrei Tarkovsky adaptation,...
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The David Foster Wallace Disease
Famous dead writer David Foster Wallace made many writers unhappy. The unhappiness, of course, was a feeling of inferiority. You know, if you’re a writer reading Wallace, that you just aren’t that...
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The Year in Audio Nostalgia
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.In 1982, the electronics company Philips developed an ad campaign to promote the international launch of...
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The Year in Observance
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.No matter how dark the storm gets overheadThey say someone’s watching from the calm at the edgeWhat about...
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On episode 25 of Cavern of Secrets—our last for the year!—Lauren looks back at 2016 before speaking with national columnist Vicky Mochama.
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The Year in Broken Hungarian
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.The Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős once said of his obsessive relationship with number theory, “If...
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The Year in Prepping
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.I can’t remember when my thing with the preppers started. It must have been early in the year because it...
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The Year in New Names
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.Lots of women are faced with the choice of whether to change their names. Most aren’t ten years old when...
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The Year in Chuck Bass Coping Mechanisms
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.“Happiness does not seem to be on the menu,” boy billionaire Chuck Bass tells his best friend Nate...
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Waiting for Ripley
If in space no one can hear you scream, torment is doubly painful. Inside her cocoon aboard a starship, the woman looks peaceful, but she’s forced to sleep, unable to dream, and on a course toward a...
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The Year in Escape
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.Last December I went to visit family in Puerto Vallarta for the first time in five years. Travel-wise,...
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The Year in Unsolicited Advice
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.I started writing full-time in 2011. I was twenty-three years old and made between $25 and $150 per piece...
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The Year in Power
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.Just a few weeks ago, I participated in a debate about religion at Trinity College in Dublin. The motion...
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The Year in Sexual Assault Trials
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.Last winter, for each of the eight days of the Jian Ghomeshi trial, Marsha McLeod went to the Old City...
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The Year in Creating Black Joy
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.Chance the Rapper provided the turnup soundtrack for most of Black America in 2016, a vital reminder of...
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The Year in Interiors
What was important to us in 2016? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the year’s issues, big and small.After moving to New York at the end of last year, I took a dozen photos of my new room, not for...
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