Georg Barkas

Feb 14, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Chantal Braganza |Scaachi Koul |Kelly Boutsalis |Georg Barkas

Welcome to Cooking is Thinking, a column about the transformation of food and how we feel about it. I got the flu for the first time at sixteen: fatigue that felt like muscle failure, hallucinatory dreams, and the first time I can remember immediate family referring to me as truly sick. I was out of school for almost a month. With not much energy and nothing else to do, I spent those weeks watching Canadian Food Network television.

Dec 22, 2023 | hazlitt.net | Elaine Feeney |Amos Barshad |Georg Barkas |Anne T. Donahue

Drinking with my sister, and after she was gone. Relearning to walk—and, more importantly, to see. What we learn from a scientific intimacy is more than just another way of looking at the term “intimacy” itself but to look away from that obscure, meaningless construct of intimacy as merely being close to one another. We know the orcas are right to sink yachts but we can’t help but betray our infatuation with a certain lifestyle. What were we obsessed with, invested in and plagued by in 2023?

Dec 13, 2023 | hazlitt.net | Richa Kaul Padte |Anne T. Donahue |Georg Barkas |Don Gillmor

What were we obsessed with, invested in and plagued by in 2023? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the issues, big and small. I live in a village in North Goa, in the last of four houses lining a quiet lane. On my first “practice walk,” I take barely fifteen steps away from my gate before becoming unbalanced, breathing under a cluster of bamboo trees. I then continue down the roughly tarred road, each step a victory.

Dec 6, 2023 | hazlitt.net | Georg Barkas |Anne T. Donahue |Richa Kaul Padte |Andrew McMillan

What were we obsessed with, invested in and plagued by in 2023? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the issues, big and small. I recently stepped back into an arena that, in truth, I had not fully left. And yet I had needed that distance, whether to have my eyes opened again or, at least, to open my eyes again and look at things seemingly unrelated. I am an intimacy educator and researcher. I teach rope bondage, and I try to expand its range, definitions, and options.

Dec 6, 2023 | hazlitt.net | Anne T. Donahue |Georg Barkas |Richa Kaul Padte |Hanna Phifer

What were we obsessed with, invested in and plagued by in 2023? Hazlitt’s writers reflect on the issues, big and small. In 2023, it seemed like a tide was finally starting to turn. Strikes blossomed across entertainment, education, and federal sectors and expanded into hotel, automotive, and publishing industries. The wealthy were sent up spectacularly through series like Succession. Critics and audiences revelled in skewering the unlikeable, venomous rich character.