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'A Society That Can’t Speak is Like a Body That Doesn’t Feel Pain': An...
It is rare to read intimate stories about people struggling against the weight of modern dictatorships. Rarer still are the urgent depictions of people trapped by history, living in fear.In Bad News:...
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Secrets Among Distractions: The Power of Wimmelbooks
A hippie serenades his hairy friends, irritating two campers in the process, while a butler serves wine to a wealthy-looking couple nearby. An adjacent tent collapses flat on the person sleeping...
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Why Them?
People talk about fate as if it’s weighted, as if it’s seamless and inevitable. Fate, like an onomatopoeia, is precise, like the blade of a guillotine. Unavoidable, it comes rushing towards you with a...
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'The Tension Between Artists and Critics is Crucial': An Interview with A.O....
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment.” That’s Anton Ego, the spindly, sunken-eyed...
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The Gentle Art of Pretending to Understand What's Going On
My father has, since I was a small boy, imparted to me a great amount of useless knowledge. While teaching me to build and repair absolutely nothing in the physical world, he has shared with me the...
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Getting Away With It
On December 21st, 2015, R. Kelly appeared on HuffPost Live, apparently unaware that his involvement in pedophilia might be a topic of discussion. It’s not surprising, since an unhealthy number of...
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'Everything I Like is Uncool': An Interview with the Authors of a Book of...
At the beginning of the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, two virtual strangers (played by Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan) are forced by a mutual friend to road trip to New York together. The...
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A History of Horny
“Horny” seems so simple. Unlike the onomatopoeia of “bang,” “sizzle,” or “clap,” words that sound like themselves, “horny” is a word that feels like itself. Horny is satisfying, even fulsome in its...
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Featuring Jillian Tamaki
On Episode 6, Lauren talks about turning 30 before speaking with superstar illustrator Jillian Tamaki (This One Summer, SuperMutant Magic Academy) about the curse of absolute freedom, Toronto vs. New...
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After
1.They’d spent the evening roaming from bar to bar to hear his musician friends play. His wife, her friend, was there too. First here, then there, then a short stumble down the road to the next place....
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Dark Science
Last month I found myself on top of a dark mountain attending a “star party.”As much as it sounds like a Beverly Hills soirée or a drug-addled orgy, it is not. This star party is a gathering of a few...
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Set it on Fire and Start Over: Courting Failure with Idra Novey
Midway through Idra Novey’s debut novel, Ways to Disappear, the protagonist Emma Neufeld sits at a hotel desk in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, where she’s gone on the hunt for the disappeared author...
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Here's to Another Year of Being Doomed to Be Ourselves
It’s supposed to take something like seven or eight tries to quit smoking. Like, seven or eight actual flushing-things-and-buying-a-vape tries. Not just holding out until you are drunk again and then...
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The First Time I Painted a Painting
It’s never too late to try something new. From the outrageous to the mundane, Hazlitt Firsts is a collection of people doing things they’ve never done before. First up: Jeremy D. Larson paints a...
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'Empathy Implicates You': An Interview with Bill Hader
I’m not sure Bill Hader needs any introduction other than a nice, high-resolution photo to prompt those who suck at names to be like, “Oh, that guy! I love him! He’s so talented and funny!” But just in...
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Mainstream Creep: Keeping Feminist Film Criticism Subversive
“One of the constants of the feminist periodical across cultures is that it exists outside of the dominant mode of capitalist publishing.” In 1989, writing for Borderlines, the late Canadian literary...
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