Readings

I'm In Love With That Song: Our Favorites From The Replacements

The Replacements are a really, really great band: Hazlitt contributors investigate. 

'Men Out of Time': An Interview with Bob Mehr

The author of Trouble Boys, a new book about The Replacements, on creation myths, serendipitous reporting and opening on a funeral.

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A Century of Fakers

Searching for the ease that comes with unspeakable wealth, from counterfeit markets in Bangkok to money at the bottom of a barrel.

'By the Time They Banished Me, I'd Already Finished Filming': An Interview with Mehrdad Oskouei

The Iranian documentarian on gaining trust, working with censors and the importance of independent filmmaking. 

Heroin Clique: On Trainspotting, Twenty Years Later

Danny Boyle's film presented a stylish rendering of a very '90s binary: counter-culture cool, or mainstream-endorsed responsible living?

No Hex in the Cryo Tube: Can Science Fiction and Fantasy Coexist?

Readers who embrace futuristic narratives about artificial intelligences or evolved dolphins may balk at those about magicians or goblins, but creators are increasingly bridging the genre gap.

Surviving the Love Bomb

Having phone sex in a bush behind a library on the fourth of July stopped me from converting to Mormonism.

Looking at Hilton Als Looking at Everything

The photos on the author and New Yorker critic's Instagram account can seem bouncily staged, as if he’d just held up his phone and made a suggestion, or a consolation, or a dig.

Boston Rules

The city became the go-to for a very specific type of crime movie, but Spotlight is the first film to truly capture it since Good Will Hunting. 

Like This So I Know I'm Real

If the “like” remains the basic unit of reaction on social media—and therefore, of online life—then the most powerful force is indifference.