hazlitt.net

This summer, I assigned myself the task of swimming home, moving through the neighborhoods and communities that, side by side, would bring me back to myself.

It’s not that I divide my life into the periods before and after I went, exactly. It’s more that the trip accelerated a gradual change that has been happening all my life.

A good way to think about taxidermy is to imagine you’re God. Take the dead thing and resurrect it. Shape it in your own image.

I lurked on the psychopath forum for three days before contacting anyone. It is, unsurprisingly, a scary place.

I was told getting laid off from my dream job had nothing to do with me, but after I was let go, I felt like I had lost a part of myself that I couldn’t get back.

With his unconventional take on children’s television, Mr. Rogers helped redefine the male role model.

Susan Peters was an Academy Award-nominated actress, a trainee pilot, a medical student. But it was a shooting incident in 1945 that would come to define her.

Despite decades of persecution and discrimination, shamanism, Korea’s oldest belief system, still maintains its hold on the national psyche.

In her fifty years on screen, her palpable desperation to be liked has moved audiences or grated on them. But she projects something constant and knowable — the marker of a true star.

As more and more friendships are built virtually, we must confront the nuances of grieving someone you’ve never met in person.

Rose McGowan suffered from the worst of the Hollywood machine and reclaimed her body and her narrative. But her all-for-one methods have alienated fellow activists.

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s decision to breastfeed her child on “Sesame Street” to educate viewers would be one of the last times the act was broadcast without being a punchline.

Three little girls, an Internet boogeyman, and a stabbing in the woods on a sunny afternoon. Inside the trials of Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier.

Did these women hate themselves, or did they write about a world that hated them?

If beauty is in acts of ordinary devotion I think ugliness must be in the acts of everyday neglect.

One thing I love about many types of guardianship in food is that it requires you watch, but not too closely.

Finding meaning amongst the aisles.

They wanted a baby, she wanted to carry it for them — for a fee. It’s a common transaction but illegal in Canada, and the system here leaves both parties vulnerable.

Songwriter Jim Steinman found his muse in the performer — and, forty years ago, they released their iconic, operatic rock album, Bat Out of Hell.

For a decade, the BDSM site Kink.com has filmed scenes for its more than 50,000 members in a hundred-year-old armory in downtown San Francisco. This year, the final erotic frames were shot on the premises.