Noah Berlatsky

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

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.

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

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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.

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