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Party in Hell | Hazlitt

1 month 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.
The Truth Alongside the Triumphs: An Interview with Mayukh Sen

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.
The Spirit Bride

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.
This Is, Maybe, 25 Percent of What Happened: An Interview with Scaachi Koul

Mar 26, 2025 | 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.
So Much Grows | Hazlitt

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?
The Lie of the Rules-Based Order: An Interview with Omar El Akkad

Feb 27, 2025 | hazlitt.net | Nour Abi-Nakhoul |Richard Warnica |Rachel Gerry |Rollie Pemberton

Depending on where you live in the world and what your principles are, the past year and a half has either been business as usual or one of the most devastating periods of your life. Israel’s relentless massacre in Gaza, which began in October 2023, was initially explained as a necessity in order to defend the settler state from the militant political group Hamas—but has continued long past the point when that excuse could hold water.
Let's Not Pretend

Dec 19, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Abhrajyoti Chakraborty |Meg Bernhard |Michaela Cavanagh |Rollie Pemberton

Fifteen minutes into Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura (1960), you sense that this is a movie about lying adults. Anna (played by Lea Massari) is on a yacht cruise with a group of friends near an abandoned island off Sicily. She is lolling about the waves in her swimsuit when she cries that she has spotted a shark. Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), her architect boyfriend, rushes to her aid and escorts her safely back to their boat.
A Night with Smiley

Dec 9, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Max Ufberg |Allison LaSorda |Kristen Arnett |Rachel Gerry

The old shopkeeper’s bell above the door clinked and Bill turned to see two men, one of them carrying a moderately sized cardboard box dotted with crudely carved perforations, walk into the tavern. “A car that lacks four-wheel drive has no business out here,” said the man holding the box. “A drink to wait it out doesn’t sound like the worst deal in the world,” said his companion. The first man grunted in response.
Chappell Roan and the Parasocial Media Backlash

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.
Bathed in an Arc of Fresh Light

Oct 2, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy |Tina Horn |Erin Brubacher |Kelli Maria Korducki

ColletteI fell in love with her before I read any of her books. To my teenage eyes smeared in the black kohl I believed made me look nihilistic and wasted (it was the era of punk after all and we were all in mourning for the future), Colette had a self- possessed kind of beauty that I felt she owned and hired to the photographer.