On HU

Featured Archive Post: Deb Aoki on selling manga to grown ups.

Me on cartoonists drawing blindfolded to make high art.

Me on race, class and Iggy Azalea.

Kate Polak on Jeremy Love’s Bayou and the persistence of racism.

Chris Gavaler on being swamped with superheroes.

Kristian Williams on the anti-imperial message of the 2012 Red Dawn.

Kailyn Kent on what Lois Lane was drinking, and wine vs. cheerios.

Michael A. Johnson on Fabrice Neaud and autobiographical comics.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Reason I wrote about a new report which suggests that police engage in racial profiling in prostitution arrests.

At the Awl I argue that H.P> Lovecraft’s racism is the reason to read him.

At Esquire I wrote about Left Behind and Terminator and the joys of apocalypse.

At the Pacific Standard I explained why Gone With the Wind should be out of copyright.

At Splice Today I wrote about

— Gary Hart, Willie Horton, and how campaigns matter.

— Walter Mondale, and how voters don’t care if you promise to raise taxes.

— the New York Times and why you need to make a commitment if you want diverse writers.

For the Chicago Reader a brief review of alt country stalwart Todd Snider.
 
Other Links

John Gray neatly eviscerates Richard Dawkins.

Nicole Rudick on Anya Davidson’s School Spirits.

syvo on Black Adam.

Charles Davis on unpaid internships in the film industry.

Miles Klee on sexism in the alt lit scene.

Tracy Q. Loxley on Fox News and dim-witted misogyny.
 

 
On HU

Featured Archive Post: Kinukitty on what’s wrong with Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World.

Me on Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and the dream of zombie assimilation.

Rebecca Field makes a militant homosexual dress and talks about dyke marches.

Ng Suat Tong argues (contra me) that the Morales/Baker Truth, and its take on the black Captain America, really is not very good.

Tracy Q. Loxley argues (contra me) that rock is too dead.

Stacey Donovan, author of the wonderful YA novel Dive, talks about how she became a writer.

Roy T. Cook asks, was Spider-Woman harmed by that Milo Manara cover?

Sean Michael Robinson on the songwriting of Kate Bush.
 
Utilitarans Everywhere

At Pacific Standard I argued that online harassment of women isn’t a gamer problem.

At Splice Today I wrote about

— A.O. Scott, children’s lit and how the patriarchy loves stories about dead patriarchs.

— the most influential male country singer of all time.

The folks at the Center for Digital Ethics collected some of their essays (including a few of mine) into a dead tree thing. So if you want to read my prose embedded in dead trees, here’s your chance.

At the Chicago Reader I make some recommendations for things to see at the Chicago art expo.
 
Other Links

Brendan Nyhan on why science journals need to report negative results.

Tressie McMillan Cottom on feminism, class, Lean In, and other matters.

Nice piece evaluating Hauerwas’ theological contributions at First Things.

Darren Chetty on why non-white kids need to see themselves in children’s lit.

Will Wilkinson points out that Tom Frank doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Mary McCarthy on losing her house.

Nicky Smith, on how Steely Dan is still great.
 

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Comics vs. Fashion editorials.

Kim O’Connor with a brief take on Bianca Bangarelli’s brief comic “Fish”.

Conseula Francis and Qiana Whitted on the disappointing ending to the story of the black Captain America in Truth.

Kim O’Connor on R. Crumb’s unpleasant influence on comics criticism.

Ng Suat Tong on crying at the skating drama “Ice Castles.”

Alex Buchet on Sherlock Holmes and the women.

Adrielle Mitchell on science comics and page layout.

Chris Gavaler on Pride and Prejudice and Superman.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Atlantic:

— I tell Gene Simmons that rock isn’t dead.

—I interviewed Beverly Tatum, the president of Spelman, about race and education.

—I review the documentary “Take Me To the River” and explain why Britney pops up in a film about Memphis soul.

At Pacific Standard I talk about Mike Brown, “no angel”, Harriet Beecher Stowe and stereotypes of black men.

At Splice Today I talk about:

— Air Supply, the Beach Boys, and the virtues of musical inauthenticity.

— how I could been a thespian.

At the Reader I have a short review of rapper Lizzie, who is great.

The Gone With the Wind study guide I worked on for Shmoop is online.
 
Other Links

Can’t remember if I posted this before, but I really like this piece by Alice Bolin on Miranda Lambert and Beyonce.

Dee Lockett on FKA Twigs.

Amanda Hess on Taylor Swift.

And Fantagraphics is going to publish Fukitor, if folks want to talk about that.
 

HU

Featured Archive Post: Kailyn Kent on Lyonel Feininger’s retrospective at the Whitney.

Anne Lorimer expresses skepticism about the Gay Utopia project.

Is there any good literary fiction?

Ng Suat Tong on myth and the Encyclopedia of Early Earth.

Sean Michael Robinson on the one thing that’s not awful about Grease 2.

Chris Gavaler on the French Batman.

Michael A. Johnson on Guido Crepax and the erotics of page layout.

Me on Morales and Kirby’s Truth and the bitterness of the black Captain America.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

My son helped me out with the Black Girl Dangerous bucket challenge to support queer and trans people of color in the media. No bucket, but I do get bashed in the head.

At the Pacific Standard I wrote about

—Patricia McGinley’s great book Staging the Blues and why Beyoncé isn’t a terrorist.

—Curtis Johnson’s book on Darwin and chance and why life is all about uncertainty.

At the Center for Digital Ethics I wrote about why Facebook is like Stanley Milgram.

At Splice Today I wrote about the Manara Spider-Woman and the difference between sexy superheroines and sexy superheroes.
 
Other Links

Conor Friedersdorf on yet another case of police racism and incompetence.

G. Anne Bassett on interviews for the long-term unemployed.

Dani Paradis on the problems with anti-rape nail polish.

Avital Andrews on the virtues of being a couch potato.

Monika Bartyzel on why the Big Chill still matters.