Readings

The more seriously people take bartending, the more it turns toward self-parody.

Terror threats, delayed elections, and inept social media assistants: Imagining the fight for Nigeria's political future.

Through their many permutations, Archie comics have always evoked a certain adolescence—even when their tangles of anachronism likely felt foreign to any real-life teens.

An alternate history.

Hazlitt editors investigate.

On the pervasive stereotype of the militant non-believer.

"What I’ve always admired is the emotive depth of Sidibe’s gaze. Disbelief and insouciance, terror and DGAF—so much is felt, and said, in a flash."

"She holds a gun and looks at the camera dead-on and her stare seems more potent than the weapon. She’s the girl you follow out of the party because the action is going wherever she does."

The author of Leaving Before the Rains Come on how to write fairly about divorce, whether anyone can truly "have it all," and the perils of "bumper-sticker feminism."