Noah Berlatsky

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

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.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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

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

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.