Author Archives: Noah Berlatsky

Utilitarian Review 7/21/17

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Why you should welcome our Oankali overlords.

Online interactions are real interactions.
 
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At Slate I wrote about how Dunkirk points the way to better anti-war movies, even though it isn’t anti-war itself.

At Playboy I wrote about George Romero and smaller than life horror.

At Quartz I said we need to SMASH ALL EASTER EGGS!

At Splice Today I wrote about

—why battle metaphors are a bad way to talk about cancer.

—Three Kings and American savior fantasies.

—Music that isn’t planning to change the world from Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa, My Purest Heart for You, and Red Pill.
 

Utilitarian Review 6/15/17

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Bert Stabler and I put together a list of the 100 Greatest metal albums of all time.

For Patrons I wrote about Lego Batman and evolutionary morality.

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At the LA Times I argued that diversity is a euphemism meaning don’t be a bigot.

At the Verge I wrote about superheroes, race, and Cleverman.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—Elon Musk and working long hours to flatter the ultra rich.

—Full Metal Jacket as rape/revenge Vietnamsploitation.

At the Chicago Reader I wrote about briefly about dronegaze band Planning for Burial and growing up in Wilkes-Barre.

A long twitter thread listing art I love with links to essays.

Utilitarian Review 7/8/17

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I wrote about Baby Driver, Legion, and disability as superpower…for directors.
 
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At the Forward I wrote about how Spider-Man isn’t Jewish anymore.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Rambo as Native American and racializing veterans.

—how Wyonna Earp is crap and the Golden Age of Television is a sham.

At Bandcamp I wrote about the fractured pop of Larkin Grimm’s Chasing an Illusion.

Utilitarian Review 7/1/17

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On Angela Nagle, the Handmaid’s Tale and how the religious right is in fact part of capitalism.

The difference between Handmaid’s Tale book and tv show. (TV show has more empowerment.)
 
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At Playboy I wrote about Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled as neo-Confederate feminism.

At the Verge I wrote about

—how Preacher the television show is different from the comic (Jesse doesn’t walk with God.

—Blood Drive and our retro-future disgusting Reagan apocalypse.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—electronica releases by Juana Molina, Jlin, and K. Reinshagen.

—First Blood as reverse colonial fever dream.

Utilitarian Review 6/24/17

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I was on vacation for part of this week, so things have been a little slow.

Next week I have a couple of book promotion bargain things happening, so follow my twitter or facebook or Patreon for notification of those.
 
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I did a series of interviews with BLM activists back in 2015. They never got published, so I finally posted them.
 
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I’m editing a series of romance criticism columns at Public Books. Ria Cheyne wrote a great piece on disability in Fay Robinson’s A Man Like Mac.

At Playboy I wrote about the first season of Preacher as a revisionist revisionist Western.

At Random Nerds I wrote about the Defenders and bad crossovers.

At Splice Today I wrote about the trope of the Nazi supervillain.

At Bandcamp I reviewed Svartsyn’s awesome black metal album “In Death.”

At the Reader I wrote about a great new Memphis soul band, Southern Avenue.

I had a little chat with Gerry Canavan about whether Octavia Butler’s Oankali are evil.

Utilitarian Review 6/17/17

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My new ebook on women film directors is out! Buy one today!
 
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Rewriting the Wonder Woman movie.

Why the Great British Bake Off is better than Legion.
 
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At the Forward I wrote a long piece about Scarlett Johansson and Jewish assimilation (or the lack therof.)

At Bandcamp I wrote about the Mexican chiptune scene.

At the Verge I wrote about racial erasure in the Handmaid’s Tale, book and show.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—how Adam West is the sexiest Batamn.

—Defiance and how fascism shapes Jewish identity.

—why The Shack is better than American Gods.

Utilitarian Review 6/10/17

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My new book on women in film, The Consequences of Feminism, is out on Monday! Preorder, call your friends, celebrate!

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On Underground Railroad and taking the progress out of slavery narratives.

Wonder Woman fan fiction featuring: Beaver Men!
 
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At the Forward I noted that if you’re upset that people notice Wonder Woman is white, you may well be white.

At Quartz I noted that the new Wonder Woman movie is oddly uninterested in sisterhood.

At Trackrecord I wrote about all the records from 1967 that were better than Sgt. Pepper’s.

At Playboy I interviewed Greg Garrett about the meaning of zombies.

At Splice Today I wrote about Look Who’s Back and the shallow evil of embracing Hitler.