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1 month ago | 
hazlitt.net | Erica X Eisen |Leon Craig |Carleigh Baker |Chantal Braganza
My in-laws did not approach me directly about becoming a spirit bride. I received their request through my father, who sat me down rather formally one evening to consider my options. I would never make you do this, he said several times, although it was clear he wanted me very much to say yes.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
hazlitt.net | Rollie Pemberton |Carleigh Baker |Abhrajyoti Chakraborty |Meg Bernhard
Welcome to Mind in Bloom, a column deconstructing current events, music and art. A couple weekends ago, on a layover after playing a show in Hamburg, I found myself with some friends at a rock bar on a typically soggy night in East London. Having recently gotten the Sunfly mascot tattooed onto my forearm, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was karaoke night.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
hazlitt.net | Abhrajyoti Chakraborty |Sophie Monks Kaufman |Carleigh Baker
Welcome to Wayward Watching, a column on the seen and unseen in film. The French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s mother apparently once reproached him for working too hard on Madame Bovary: “Your mania for sentences has dried up your heart.” You could say of Salvador Mallo, the protagonist of Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory (2019), that his heart is dry, but not because he has been busy ironing out the wrinkles in his sentences.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
hazlitt.net | Carleigh Baker |Nour Abi-Nakhoul |Rachel Gerry
Welcome to Bizarre Celebrations, a column about storytellers, craft, and everyday encounters with technology. When it was still standing, the most haunted house in Vancouver did not look the part. Its design came straight out of the city’s 1986 aesthetic of faux marble, window block turrets, and beige optimism. The driveway was always empty, the gate always closed.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
torontosun.com | Gabriel García Márquez |James Kaplan |Marilynne Robinson |Carleigh Baker
These are the 30 bestselling books from international authors this week. • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article contentNEW RELEASESAdvertisement 2Don't have an account? Create AccountArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
hazlitt.net | Abhrajyoti Chakraborty |Carleigh Baker |Rollie Pemberton |Meg Bernhard
Welcome to Wayward Watching, a column on the seen and unseen in film. The scariest moment I’ve seen in a film occurs sometime during the first half of Casino. Sam (played by Robert De Niro) runs a sprawling Mafia-backed resort in Las Vegas and midway through his rounds of the chip tables downstairs one evening, he spots a couple of men scheming to read a dealer’s cards. He secretly pokes the tougher-looking man with a cattle prod and tells his enforcers to whisk him off to another room.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
hazlitt.net | Rollie Pemberton |Carleigh Baker |Nour Abi-Nakhoul |Lana Hall
Welcome to Mind in Bloom, a column deconstructing current events, music and art. I was gobsmacked when I read the news that Pitchfork was being folded into GQ by parent company Condé Nast. More than half of their staff were laid off, leaving a skeleton crew of eight to steer the ship into whatever new incarnation the site will be taking. Of course, the contemporary media landscape is fraught with constant reminders of the written word’s flagging relevance.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
travelandleisure.com | Carleigh Baker
The sky is big in Smoky Lake, Alberta — so big you can catch retreating storms and rays of sun in one glance. The old prairie saying about being able to see your dog run away for three days came to mind as I sat in Len Hrehorets’s truck at the Visions, Hopes and Dreams at Métis Crossing Wildlife Park. Through the open windows, we watched bison graze. The soft-spoken rancher switched on country music and turned up the volume. “Keeps ’em calm,” he said.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
hazlitt.net | Carleigh Baker |Scaachi Koul |Chantal Braganza |Niko Stratis
Welcome to Bizarre Celebrations, a column about storytellers, craft, and everyday encounters with technology. When a late summer storm soaked Black Rock Desert this year, turning the alkaline dust of an ancient lake bed to a cement-like gruel, the angry internet learned that Burning Man exists. You won’t believe what happened next. Around 70,000 people were in Black Rock City, a self-sustaining community on the territory of the Northern Paiute people.
