Music

Odds and Sods: On Rachel Kushner, Roberto Bolaño, and Literary B-Sides

As interviews, explanatory essays, and other process-focused publishing artifacts become inescapable parts of the literary package, do we have to reckon with novels on terms other than our own?

Lives From New York

On Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band and Robert Christgau's Going Into the City.

Every Grammy-Winning Record of the Year, Rated and Reviewed

From "the worst fucking song" Frank Sinatra ever heard to the upsetting eroticism of Rob Thomas, a comprehensive cataloging of all 55 award-winners since 1959.

The Recommender: All the Best of 2014

All (well, some of) the books, music, films and TV shows Hazlitt's staff found and enjoyed this year.

2014 Is Not A List

On the insufficiency of numbers, black metal turned aggressively queer and danceable, and finding that certain brand of black cherry lipstick.

Memorable For the Wrong Reasons: Tom Ewing on Charity Singles

In e-mail conversation with the UK music critic about "We Are the World," "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and other "classics" of the genre.

Changing Minds: Nick Jonas, One Direction, and the Rare Act of Pop Transference

There's no sure escape from the compressed life of a boy band.

Willow and Jaden Smith: The Outtakes

T magazine "condensed and edited" its interview earlier this week with Willow and Jaden Smith. Here, exclusively, is what didn't make the cut.

Stumbling Towards the Mainstream: On Azealia Banks' Broke With Expensive Taste

Banks' long-delayed debut album arrived with a shrug, but this is less evidence of an artist failing to live up to her potential than of the still-crushing vagaries of the record industry.