Noah Berlatsky

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?

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

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

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."

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

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

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

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.