Noah Berlatsky

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.

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.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.