Noah Berlatsky

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

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.

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

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?

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

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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