On HU

Featured Archive Post: Sarah Shoker praises Ariel and mermaid lust.

On how the media cares about fascism, but not really black metal.

We started our roundtable on the Best Band No One Has Ever Heard Of. (The index is here.

Betsy Phillips on Sleepy John Estes and making a place.

Sean Michael Robinson on the album that never was from psych garage The Music Machine.

Ben Saunders on the prog-punk of the Cardiacs.

Rahawa Haile on the music of Eritrea.

Chris Gavaler on New Zealand pop.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

I was on the Frame on KPCC talking about my book on Wonder Woman, bondage, and feminism.

I was on WHYY with Brianna Wu and Chris Grant of Polygon talking about Gamergate.

At the Atlantic I wrote about Percy Jackson, kids’ lit, and letting children be human now.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

— Billy Joel never recording another album, yay!

— Flash, Sleepy Hollow, and the medicore Golden Age of Television.

At the Chicago Reader, a short review of the lovely Italian dreampop band Be Forest.
 
Other Links

Tim Hanley on Afterlife With Archie.

Alexis Coe on how her book about murder in Memphis gave her bad dreams.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charles Barkley and the plague of unintelligent blacks.

Lori Adorable on escorts and hard limits.

Alex Buchet reprints a conversation between Frederic Wertham and Alfred Hitchcock.

Sharon Marcus on street harassment.