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The Increasingly Realistic Post-AIDS World
On Monday, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a paper about some startlingly good news: researchers at the Temple University School of Medicine and the Case Western Reserve...
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How Do I Talk To My Coworker’s Dumb Baby?
Got a problem that’s got you feeling fucked if you do, fucked if you don’t? Send us your concerns and questions and Unfuck Yourself. It’s been a brutal and confusing week for complex and violent...
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Feminist Horror and To Be Pynchonesque
“Whenever Bill Vignola typed his own name in MS Word, the email to Gates explained, it was automatically changed to Bill Vaginal. Presumably Vignola caught this sometimes, but not always, and no doubt...
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Guy Debord: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of a Brilliant Crank
This year will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Guy Debord (1931-1994), the filmmaker, revolutionary, writer, and consummate drinker who is most often identified as the secretary and guiding...
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The Uniquely Repetitive World of Jim Jarmusch
In 1984, Jim Jarmusch finished Stranger Than Paradise, the long-gestating feature he’d expanded from a half-hour short of the same name. He’d completed a film degree a few years prior at NYU, an...
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Would You Like to See the Body?
The bodies of the passengers of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 began arriving at Eindhoven airport in the Netherlands yesterday—40 simple wooden coffins unloaded from military transport planes while a...
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One Nation Under Kale
The Fifty Shades of Grey traileris technically SFW but, I mean, you’re probably going to have some NSFW feelings about it.American TV casts may be looking more diverse these days, but their writers are...
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Where It Is I Come to Pray
“How Do You Dismantle A Building Made of Human Remains?”— from Vice, 14 May, 2014All of the teenagers in Kutná Hora pray at the Sedlec Ossuary each Sunday.It is known as the bone chapel and it is...
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Is Competent Authoritarianism Too Much to Ask For?
Rest easy, America: Your great Republic may be troubled by the threat of terrorism, migrants crossing your borders, and a level of gun-fuelled violent crime that would make other countries weep (or at...
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Hoarding Books, Burger Math, and the Fluffiest Biscuits
“The Third Pounder presented the American public with a test in fractions. And we failed.” Why do Americans stink at math?The “twisted world view” guiding Israel towards the “let the I.D.F. win”...
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Are You Having Enough Fun?
Are we having fun yet? In our summer? In our lives? I’ve been trying to figure out how to have fun like everyone else since the sixth grade, and I’m not sure I’ve ever gotten the hang of it. Now I’m 34...
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The Republican Party is Finally Ready to Govern—Just Ask Them
In the dog days of summer, the Republican Party wants voters to know they’re ready to govern. No, seriously. Hey, wait, why are you laughing?The prospect of the current crop of GOP legislators having...
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Let the Right Ones In: Haiti’s Precarious Tourism Boom
Haiti’s had many problems over the centuries, but only a few have actually been Haitian.And now, as the millions invested and billions promised after the 2010 earthquake have reconstituted the nation...
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Nips, Tucks, and Shakespeare Sucks
It’s only been a few weeks since he left Public Radio International and already Ira Glass is going on unrepentant anti-Shakespeare rants.Inside the secret world of the best-selling...
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Teens Need Love Too: Like No Other, Twilight, and Why Young Romance Matters
Recently, I got my paws on a copy of Una Lamarche’s Like No Other, a new release from Penguin Young Reader’s Razorbill imprint. Its positive review in The New York Times seemed promising, as did the...
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Blood, Guilt, and the Roots of Dental Dread
In his foundational 1728 textLe Chirurgien Dentiste (roughly, “The surgical dentist”), Pierre Fauchard laid out a lot of the basis for modern dentistry, including dispelling the persistent belief that...
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Real Fakes: The Challenges of the Fictional Artist
The cross-disciplinary world can be difficult to navigate for a writer. As Martin Amis famously noted, in a discussion of book reviews: “[w]hen you review an exhibition of paintings you don’t compose a...
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George Saunders’ Favorite Stories, Weird Bob Dylan, and Juggalos on the March
“But then I stabbed the shit out of her.” Hazlitt contributor Kathleen Hale hunts feral hogs in Florida.George Saunders picks his favorite short stories.Vladimir Putin, in a stunning reversal, turns...
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The Arcade: Episode 31, The Natural Order
This Week…Nature, big government, and the unexpected power of doodling. I speak with cartoonist Jesse Jacobs about his new graphic novel, the confounding Safari Honeymoon.You can subscribe to the...
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