Noah Berlatsky
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While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.
Read...The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?
Read...Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.
Read...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.
Read...Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.
Read...For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.
Read...Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
Read...The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.
Read...With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.
Read...The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.
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