Like Sarah Palin and the Fords before her, Paula Deen's new video network is ostensibly a platform to engage directly with fans unperturbed by certain scandals. It's also a way to avoid reality.

In this week's installment of Unf*ck Yourself: getting cut out by a friend, struggling to make it in media, and an update from a past letter-writer.

Hazlitt scene reporter Wendy takes part in a time-honoured tradition–the comparing of ailments.

The Giller Prize-winning author returns with a new novel, Quartet for the End of Time, which challenges not only her readers, but the limits of artistic expression.

Television has long treated sex as either a perfect analogue or a comical inversion of the rest of character's life. Masters of Sex offers the radical notion that sex can be more than a metaphor.

Visiting with rival agonistes in the struggle over the Central African Republic. The third in a series of dispatches.