Noah Berlatsky

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

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

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

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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

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.

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.