Readings

Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman wanted to write the definitive story of Anonymous. Her new book explains why that was an impossible goal.

Lorrie Moore as the mother you never had.

The Vanity Fair of today embodies a certain sort of lavishness—an often unironic appreciation of and yearning for rich people things. It wasn't always this way.

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

On love and desire in the time of "I like them BBW."

On keeping your loved ones fed, whether they like it or not.

2014 felt like a long, cruel object lesson in disappointment. Should we really have expected better?

On finally telling your parents you have romantic feelings for a fellow adult.

In this excerpt from Red Heat, Alex von Tunzelmann looks at how the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion changed the balance of power during the Cold War.