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.

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

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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

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

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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