Culture

Tommy Wiseau and the Audacity of Stupid

As The Disaster Artist, the new book by Wiseau’s The Room co-star Greg Sestero shows, sometimes the only thing separating poetry and idiocy is the strength of the artist’s conviction—demented and delusional as it may be.

Salvage Operations: In Conversation with Jonathan Lethem

A conversation about politics as culture with Dissident Gardens author Jonathan Lethem.

Inside the Museum of Broken Relationships

Travelers often feel obliged to visit museums, regardless of their interest in the facts and figures on display. But Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships offers something for anyone who's been heartbroken: it exhibits monuments to lost love.

Ron Mann on the Making of Comic Book Confidential

The filmmaker behind the seminal documentary, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, talks to Hazlitt about how the project came together, underground comics in Reagan-era America, and a memorable call to Mad magazine.