Readings

Much of the 20th century was spent trying to fix the problems of the city by destroying it, but the 21st century will be an urban one. It was a long, ugly fight, and the city has won.

"Poems are a record of failure," says the poet Ben Lerner—art, too, by extension. But does that argument apply to the stranger corners of the Internet?

Plenty of companies are feeding data to computers in the hopes of replicating human behavior, but how close can machines truly get if all they have to work on is the information we offer?

On getting your husband motivated now that you're pregnant, handling a herpes diagnosis, and quitting smoking when your boss won't let you.

Why post a personal when you could do Tinder? The reasons span centuries.

A stint teaching at a writer's workshop in Ramallah leads the author to examine the Palestinian resistance through the literature that has shaped it. An excerpt from the latest Hazlitt Original.

There are mayoral candidates in Toronto who care about the city, genuinely want to improve it, and, most of all, actually want to be mayor. Together, we can stop them.

César Aira writes practically off the cuff, creating narrative puzzles for the fun of solving them. Should his readers feel tricked?

It's one thing to think about what it might be like to grow old with someone. It's another thing to think about being with someone while they grow old.