Noah Berlatsky

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.