Readings

Four of Hazlitt's favourite cookbook authors talk shop. Peter Meehan, Jennifer McLagan, Naomi Duguid, and Meredith Erickson on annoying food trends, what makes a great cookbook, and how they really feel about following recipes.

Critics have lambasted Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In for ignoring structural inequalities and putting the onus on women to propel themselves through the workplace. But Lean In is not a feminist text. It’s a self-help book.

Joss Whedon's fast and loose production of Much Ado About Nothing reflects William Shakespeare more as a writer of lowbrow human interest plays rather than the overwrought soliloquies his work has come to be associated with.