Hazlitt

Hazlitt

Hazlitt serves as a platform for writers and artists to share their most meaningful stories. Whether through visual art, music, or written content—be it fiction, non-fiction, humor, or criticism—Hazlitt stands out as a vital part of the internet. It promotes a diverse range of voices and is dedicated to showcasing stories and creators that often go unheard elsewhere.

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  • 1 week ago | hazlitt.net | Rollie Pemberton

    Welcome to Mind in Bloom, a column deconstructing current events, music and art. March 2025, Rolling Loud California. An ocean of glimmering phones paints a horizon, piercing the dark stillness of the Inglewood night. A barely perceptible drone sails through a misting of smoke that hangs limply in the air.

  • 1 month ago | hazlitt.net | Rebecca Flint Marx

    “At the start of 1935, Merle Oberon feared her Hollywood career was over,” Mayukh Sen writes in the introduction to Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (W.W. Norton & Company). In 1934, Oberon was an established actress back in England, where she was often cast in so-called “exotics”—roles that capitalized on the Indian heritage she was already working hard to obscure.

  • 2 months 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.

  • 2 months ago | hazlitt.net | Chantal Braganza |Richard Warnica |Nour Abi-Nakhoul |Rollie Pemberton

    The original title for Scaachi Koul’s Sucker Punch (Knopf Canada), the follow-up to her bestselling 2017 essay collection, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, was a translation of a Kashmiri phrase her mother would often hurl in exasperation at Koul and her brother whenever they acted up as children. “Paye thraat.” I Hope Lightning Falls on You.

  • Mar 5, 2025 | hazlitt.net | Allison LaSorda |Emma Cohen |Alison Motluk |Nour Abi-Nakhoul

    I am grateful for this life! And yet I miss the alternatives. All sketches wish to be real. —Tomas Tranströmer, The Blue HouseThe fertility clinic’s waiting room featured photos of chubby, healthy, smiling babies. No photos of women, though. Despite fluorescent lights, the space felt furtive. Other waiting people, also alone, seemed flat-stomached beneath their winter coats and avoided each other’s eyes. It felt embarrassing and painful. Shouldn’t this process be simpler?