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.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

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.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

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

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.

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

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