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Who Wears a Belt Buckle? And Other Irresistible Mysteries
Serial is the popular true-crime podcast in which journalist Sarah Koenig hems and haws weekly over whether Adnan Syed, now in prison in Maryland, really killed his girlfriend Hae Min Lee when they...
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Willow and Jaden Smith: The Outtakes
Earlier this week,T magazine published an interview with 14-year-old Willow Smith and 16-year-old Jaden Smith, the children of Smiths Will and Jada Pinkett. Initially occasioned by their two new...
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The Yakuza-Olympic Connection and a History of Sexy Men
The most dangerous photo in Japan was just leaked.“I don’t have many writing regrets. But this is one of them.” Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with his past treatment of Bill Cosby.“Online feminism has more...
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The Real Lolita
Sally Horner walked into the Woolworth’s on Broadway and Federal to steal a five-cent notebook. She had to, if the girls’ club she desperately wanted to join were to accept her into its ranks. She’d...
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Hard Times Are Coming and Post-Internet Art
Charts to chart your Serial obsession. “The truth is, Cliff Huxtable was a lie and Bill Cosby must now confront the truth.”Men explain Cars to Hazlitt’s own Anna Fitzpatrick.We want more for TV’s geek...
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The Times You Go Into the Darkness: An Interview with Alison Pick
To know your own story is central to the practice of writing; it’s the place where all other stories begin. But what if a barrier has been placed there deliberately?That question is the thread running...
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Goals I’ve Set, and Other Mistakes
For a long time, all I wanted was to be published by The Globe and Mail. I edited the school paper in high school and dreamed about eventually working at Canada’s Grey Lady. My dad wanted it for me...
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Howard the Duck Will Return!
On the strange intimacy of Serial.Oh man, remember how hot Ty Pennington was??Beloved Canadian monster Chip Zdarsky is bringing Howard the Duck back. (Perhaps a Sex Criminals crossover?)“Blood Sport...
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Changing Minds: Nick Jonas, One Direction, and the Rare Act of Pop Transference
In the opening scene of the classic filmJosie & The Pussycats, Alan Cumming’s feyly sinister record executive elects to assassinate his boy band Du Jour after they discover the subliminal messages...
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“Let’s not make noise, let’s make a difference.”
A grand jury has decided to not charge Officer Darren Wilson for the August 9 shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. The announcement was made by St. Louis County prosecutor Robert...
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The Secret Art of Talking to Other Humans
We live in a golden age of television. By this I mean that it is possible, at this very moment, to download all three seasons of Naked and Afraid from the comfort of your living room and watch them...
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The Charming Man
Read the other stories in our WWI fiction partnership with The Globe and Mail here.The first worry is the moon. Tipton has done the calculations, but now, in the thick of the plan, Ed senses the dark...
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Memorable For the Wrong Reasons: Tom Ewing on Charity Singles
Thirty years ago, fortified by several intoxicants and the tetchy beleaguering of Bob Geldof, an era of British pop stars rushed to record together under the name Band Aid. The resulting song “Do They...
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Buying a Better World
Elephants are dying, says the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Palestinians are dying, says Jewish Voice for Peace. The Yazidi people of northern Iraq are in refugee camps and they are dying, says a...
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The Hazlitt Offensive: Molly Peacock
Molly Peacock is the Toronto-based author of six books of poetry, a one-woman show, and the best-selling biography, The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72. She has also edited a...
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IBully Billy drove a Huffy, upped the ante,ghost rode his bike into Audi car doors.Five crew cut stepbrothers back from the armywould knuckle punch the family puppy.That scrapper, his out-of-season...
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‘Art Can Be A Story-Starter’: Eliza Robertson and Lee Henderson in Conversation
In her curatorial statement for virtual gallery space The Looking Glass, Wallflowers author Eliza Robertson writes that her characters “think by the way they see.” The project’s previous curator, Lee...
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Smartass Entertainment in the Age of Sincerity
The first dozen pages of Infinite Jest are as good as the first dozen pages of any novel since Nabokov. The next hundred are a different matter. A story of sorts unfolds in a way not unlike dropping a...
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True Dog Stories
You probably think you know dogs. By this I mean, when I read you a famous description of dogs, you will have the same feeling I did when I first read it. I said to myself: if the word “dog” had not...
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