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Hollywood North Korea: How to Make Movies the Kim Jong-il Way
When I worked at CNN, there was a pile of neglected books, like at any news organization, mailed in by authors, or their publicists, hoping to retell their story on camera, all the while gazing into...
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The Valued Employee
The accused, Glen, wears the clothes he was arrested in and stands inside a Plexiglas and steel enclosure, a sort of judicial penalty box, built against the east wall of Courtroom #501. This is Glen’s...
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Toronto’s Phony War Is Over: the Week In Toronto Politics
Olivia Chow has finally made her mayoral campaign official. If I wanted to be a jerk about it, I’d say she has simply stopped lying about it, but it’s worth celebrating the fact Toronto’s phony war is...
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The Duality of the Drive-By Truckers
When the Drive-By Truckers called their 1998 debut album Gangstabilly, it wasn’t just a cute portmanteau, even if their raucous country-rock shares little aesthetic affinity with hip-hop. There was a...
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Ford Feuds, Transgender Jews, and Farewell to Rock Action
Goodbye, Rock Action. Stooges drummer Scott Asheton died Saturday of an unspecified illness. “I have never heard anyone play drums with more meaning,” Iggy Pop said in a statement. Asheton was 64.In a...
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The Clash of Civilizations (That Never Existed in the First Place)
On the website toptens.com, you can vote for your favourite ancient civilization. “They invented the kabob, birthday parties, the first monotheistic religion, the first feasts, domestication of horses,...
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It started with an exposed shoulder, glistening like humid aluminum, a dressing room door held ajar, and a rumor spread like warm syrup. Then, in the first of countless dares, they cherry-bombed the...
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There is No Sensible Reading of Quebec’s Charter of Values
Well, the important thing is that she’s sorry. Louise Mailloux, the Parti Québécois candidate for the riding of Gouin—which, until 2012, had voted PQ ever since the party won its first election—is...
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On Cosmos, and What Science on TV Really Teaches Us
The two most popular PBS television documentaries are Ken Burns’s The Civil War and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Journey—series devoted to, respectively, crafting the myth of America, and making...
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Clever Burgers and Beyoncé the Cyborg
“Black girls and black women don’t really buy the president anything in this country, though we supported him with a higher percentage than any other group in both of his elections.” In Guernica, a...
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Angst and Apocalypse: Nancy Lee on Adolescence in the ’80s
The title of Nancy Lee’s 2002 collection of short stories,Dead Girls, evokes classic images of tragic figures: Ophelia drowned in the water, maybe, or a plot device in True Detective. The stories...
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How Camera Phones Stunt Bravery and Short-Circuit Human Decency
It’s not a video you’ll want to watch to the end: the scene tilts up to catch a big man in denim and a collared shirt yelling at a smaller man, a well-known neighbourhood panhandler. It’s way past last...
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Songs From The Mines: Making Music Out Of Tragedy
Somewhere Anne Murray is shedding a quiet tear. That might be the case any week, but especially now, when the “Snowbird” singer’s own home town of Springhill, N.S., has announced in the year of its...
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The Hazlitt Offensive: Adam Sol
Adam Sol is a poet and writer and the Associate Professor of English and Laurentian University in Barrie, Ontario. His collection Jeremiah, Ohio—wherein Sol reinvents the Biblical prophet and sends him...
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Finding New Ways to Hide in Plain Sight
The body is a text. To communicate with another human being is to consider them as a book. Unable to see into their souls, we encounter others as collections of signs: a smirk or a crinkle around the...
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Murderers, Punks, and Languages the Internet Forgot
Who is America’s most influential living fiction writer? If forced to choose, Flavorwire literary editor and Hazlitt contributor Jason Diamond goes with Tree of Smoke and Jesus’ Son author Denis...
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Monotony After Death
For argument’s sake let’s say the Methodists are right and only they get to go to heaven: cherubim, seraphim, playing zither on a cloud. Conformity has its rewards. If true, this leaves the rest of us...
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Jim Flaherty’s Legacy of Competence Despite a History of Bad Decisions
Jim Flaherty’s political career, which reached its denouement yesterday afternoon after the federal finance minister announced his resignation, is a testimony to what’s possible if you just stick...
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Hacker Romance, Sad Microwaves, and You're Not College Material
The lowly microwave is dying a slow, excruciating death and your precious farm-to-table lifestyle is to blame.Jason Segel is playing David Foster Wallace in a movie and this is what he looks like and...
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