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The Year in Islamophobia
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.As a Muslim, I like comics. I don’t think that...
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The Year in Absent Endings
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.To borrow a term from the video game side of the...
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The Year in Being Orphaned
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 mostly just drink wine and try not to cry. I...
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The Year in Two Kinds of Failure
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 are two kinds of decay: mine and everyone...
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The End-of-Year List at the End of the World
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.We love end-of-year lists because we, in our...
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As Women Scorned
Last year, my husband abruptly left me for another woman—moving across the country and very publicly crafting a new life that didn’t include me. Predictably, I was devastated.He’d confessed he was in...
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Thicker Than Water
In the 1986 John Hughes-penned film Pretty in Pink, Molly Ringwald plays Andie Walsh, a quick-witted, externally tough, yet entirely sympathetic fashion-savvy teenager with a preference for New Wave....
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'The Trick is to Think of Someone From the Inside Out': An Interview with...
Jesse Eisenberg has starred in 36 movies, acted in six plays, written three, and voiced (in his estimation) “five or seven books on tape.”11“Exclusively Young Adult,” he says, “I don’t know why. My...
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Bleeding Out the Jinn
He already knows about the divorce. The looming threat of deportation. My autistic son. My financial concerns over being a writer. With this knowledge, he anoints me with black seed oil blessed with...
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'The Next Portugal Will Be a Different One': An Interview with Miguel Gomes
I saw Arabian Nights this summer at a sold-out public screening at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. The three-volume, 381-minute Portuguese epic is a buoyant,...
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The Baudy, Electric
December 1962, June Cochran changed history. More than being named the fourth official Playboy Playmate of the Year and the magazine’s ninth Miss December, Cochran (5’2”, 36D, 102lbs, 19 years old)...
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Simply Everything: On David Bowie
David Bowie was never the most relatable pop star. He was almost deliberately the opposite: shape-shifting, ironic, glib, versatile, dramatic, and above all else, magnificently self-aware at every...
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The Saint of the Outsider: Growing Up with David Bowie
I awoke this morning to a text from my mother: “My condolences on David Bowie.” I learned of Michael Jackson’s death in the very same way, a crushing world event delivered in miniature.She’s been on...
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The Myth of the Myth of the City of Love
Whenever I see my dentist in North York, the glassy subdivision of Toronto where my parents live, she always asks: “Still in Paris, living the dream?” My reply, through the barricade of plastic and...
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Grace, Oddity: The Generous David Bowie
It takes 30,000 years for a radio wave to cross the galaxy to Earth, so I can’t quite believe that my dad heard Ziggy Stardust on the BBC in 1972. It was the first album he ever bought. This gave his...
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Reconciling David Bowie
When I was a kid in the eighties, Thursday nights were all about my dad and me. My stay-at-home mom got her much needed night out with the girls via a local five pin bowling league, and in exchange I...
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The New Daughters of Bollywood
On December 16, 2012, a group of men on a bus in New Delhi brutally attacked twenty-three-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey and the male friend she was traveling with. Jyoti was raped and later died of her...
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Unearthing the Sea Witch
Mermaid princess Ariel has dreams of somewhere else. Though she’s the belle of the ocean, with a doting and muscular mermaid king for a father, six fashionable older sisters, a beautiful singing voice,...
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