On HU

Featured Archive Post: Emily Thomas on The Nao of Brown and representations of mental illness.

The most covered songs ever, from St. Louis Blues to Sweet Home Chicago.

We had a thread on whether video games can be good art.

Kailyn Kent on the low-key use of wine in Obvious Child.

Chris Gavaler‘s play “Crisis on Infinite Earths”, on superheroes, saints and dinosaurs.

Michael Arthur on the feminine fabulousness of Scar and other furry matters.

Brian Cremins on density of page layout in Carol Swain’s Gast. (That completes PencilPanelPage’s Thierry Groensteen and page layout roundtable.

Me on Zoe Quinn’s Depression Quest and video games as art.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Atlantic I talked about Dana Goldstein’s The Teacher Wars and why Americans hate teachers.

At the Morning News I wrote about Nicki Minaj and our centuries long obsession with black women’s rear ends.

At the Awl I interviewed Linda Williams about The Wire and the realism canard.

At Splice Today I wrote about

— how Anita Sarkeesian’s videos are really low key.

— how ticklish my son is.
 
Other Links

R. Sikoryak Wonder Woman/de Sade mash-up.

Cathy Young question whether harassment online is gender based. Don’t agree with most of it, but raises some interesting points.

Sara Benincasa on why you shouldn’t look at Jennifer Lawrence’s nude pics.