The Year in Luck
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. Just before waking on January 1, 2015, I dream...
View Article'You Have This Utopian Vision, and You See it Go Sour': An Interview with Luc...
When the Paris Commune fell in May 1871, as government troops were shooting anybody stained by gunpowder on the spot, they captured a man named Maxime Lisbonne, commander of the pile of religious...
View ArticleA Thriller Without a Body Count: On Patricia Highsmith and Carol
“I’ll have the same,” says the girl at the diner. She’s copying the order of the older woman across the table, partially because she really wants this person to like her but also because, on some...
View ArticleThe Year in Kitchen Nightmares
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. In late 2001, not long after winning his third...
View ArticleThe Year in My Friend, Rachel, Who Is Dying
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. Rachel found $300 wilting in the rain beneath...
View ArticleThe Year in Natural Hair
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. There is no such thing as an unbreakable comb....
View ArticleThe Bones of the Past
I was twenty-two and rambling around the Maine coast when I found a copy of Loren Eiseley’s The Night Country in a Goodwill. It was a mass-market paperback with an emerald green cover: a silhouette of...
View ArticleThe Year in Being a Goddamn Homeowner
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. Whatever mystics and mathematicians say, the...
View ArticleThe Year in Talking Sex With My Mom
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. The first item we pull out of our goodie bags is...
View ArticleThe Year in Innovative Black Women
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. On December 10th, Oklahoma City police officer...
View ArticleThe Year in Coming Close
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. I’m not sure exactly when I developed the...
View ArticleThe Year in Ice Thickness
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. A few minutes before 5 a.m. on February 21st,...
View ArticleFeaturing Carrie Brownstein
On Episode 3, host Lauren Mitchell talks about being comfortable with her body during the holidays before speaking with actor, author, and musical icon Carrie Brownstein on Drake, fandom, and the...
View ArticleThe Year in Reading Infinite Jest
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. There’s this joke that’s been around for a...
View ArticleThe Year in Literature of Urban Disquiet
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. Spend enough time around writers, musicians, or...
View ArticleThe Year in Sobbing Towards Change
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones. Whenever a wedding takes place in older Indian...
View ArticleThe Year in Taking Credit Away from Drake
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones.King Kendrick Lamar has a penchant for laying...
View ArticleThe Year in Scarlet and Grey
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones.In January, I took up a habit of photographing...
View ArticleThe Year in Fuckable Power
What was important to us in 2015? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the quiet reverberations of the year’s big issues, and the loud ring of its smaller ones.Canadians have seldom eroticized political power,...
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