- The 50 Best Books of 2018 So Far https://www.popmatters.com/best-books-2018-so-far-2589034845.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5 6 comments books
- Can Satire Bring Down Donald Trump? - Freud saw laughter as the release of our pent-up hostilities. If this is so, it’s fitting that humor should play such a pivotal role in this most combative and contentious presidential election in recent history. http://www.popmatters.com/column/can-satire-bring-down-donald-trump/ 4 comments politics
- Stephen King and George RR Martin prove to be a dynamic duo on King's 'End of Watch' tour. http://www.popmatters.com/post/rats-writing-and-the-nature-of-evil-a-night-with-stephen-king/ 494 comments books
- Defining Neoliberalism http://www.popmatters.com/post/144141-/ 6 comments culturalstudies
- Kurt Vonnegut: Our Reluctant, Agnostic Hippy Guru http://www.popmatters.com/column/kurt-vonnegut-our-reluctant-agnostic-hippy-guru/ 5 comments books
- The life of a 10th grade literature teacher frequently involves slogging through some pretty crappy fiction to appreciate students’ points of view. http://www.popmatters.com/feature/escapist-reading-putting-the-adult-in-young-adult/ 42 comments books
- Neoliberalism Is Changing Our World Without Our Even Noticing http://www.popmatters.com/column/194010-neoliberalism-is-changing-our-world-without-our-even-noticing/ 19 comments politics
- 'The WikiLeaks Files' examines how 21st century American imperialism works; the military and economic interventions, the covert actions, the violations of national sovereignty and human rights. http://www.popmatters.com/review/196158-the-wikileaks-files-the-world-according-to-us-empire/ 334 comments books
- Why It's Time to Stop Hating Spotify. An indie artist opens up on how much he's earned from Spotify, what it means to his band, and why listeners should feel good about the shift to streaming consumption. http://www.popmatters.com/feature/193667-why-its-time-to-stop-hating-spotify/ 213 comments technology
- Netflix has established itself as a go-to place for quality original programming. The next step? World domination. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/173952-in-defense-of-netflix-being-the-future-of-television/ 97 comments business
- In defense of the greatness of the Gatsby. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/171337-the-greatness-of-the-gatsby/ 5 comments books
- Grove was the hippest and most important publisher of books that broke sexual taboos, plotted revolution, and kept millions of young intellectuals across the US in touch with the avant-garde and revolutionary politics throughout the world. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/170895-join-the-underground-loren-glasss-history-of-grove-press/ 4 comments books
- The success of Hugh Howey’s self-published "Wool" series points to a complete upending of publishing paradigms. Much like Amanda Palmer in music, Howey has created a whole new model of how authors relate to readers. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/170307-when-a-great-yarn-becomes-an-overnight-success/ 3 comments books
- Lawrence Wright's devastating, impeccably researched history of Scientology's "Prison of Belief" vividly illustrates the ability of this "Church" to successfully prey upon nearly every dark strain in the modern American psyche, from celebrity-worship to ego-mania and the lust for power and money. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/168474-going-clear-lawyers-guns-money-scientology/ 3 comments books
- Anonymous and the New Religion: Data http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/166490-the-new-religion-data/ 4 comments technology
- Lesser Shades of Jane. Why the girls of "Twilight" and "Fifty Shades of Grey" can't stand up to 19th century romantic heroines... http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/159709-lesser-shades-of-jane/ 31 comments books
- The 10 Greatest Movies About Writers and Writing http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/157498-the-10-greatest-movies-about-writerswriting-of-all-time/ 4 comments books
- Our obsession with brackets and rankings -- in everything from NCAA March Madness to soup -- reflects a desire to give some order to the world, to quantify things that are not generally thought of as quantifiable. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/155797-metric-madness 3 comments sports
- The 50th anniversary of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, along with the recent discovery of a vast archive of the author's unpublished work, should shine fresh light on one of the 20th century's most prolific, daring and underrated writers. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/152492-doing-the-worst-things-well-what-we-can-learn-from-anthony-burgess 12 comments books
- Forty years from now, people will be writing books on the art and music, literature and culture that came out of the Occupy Wall Street / Occupy Everything movements. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/151288-the-revolution-will-be-amplified-is-the-occupy-movement-liberating-m/ 3 comments politics
- Steve Jobs worship perpetuates the idea that proprietary technology is developed for us, for our improvement and our needs, rather than for profit or for the egos of venture capitalists and self-proclaimed visionaries. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/149640- 18 comments business
- All his life E.M. Forster lived in a world imprisoned by prejudice against homosexuals. He was 16 when Oscar Wilde was sent to prison, and he died the year after the Stonewall riots. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/144846-a-great-unrecorded-history-a-new-life-of-e.m.-forster 4 comments books
- Ok it's official. George Lucas has lost his mind. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/syndication/?vaid=efa625e6afbe0da084326bf73e237879 4 comments reddit.com
- While everyone knows Europe does socialism better than America, the fact is it does capitalism better, too http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/132172-were-you-born-on-the-wrong-continent-by-thomas-geoghegan/ 10 comments politics
- H.P. Lovecraft invented one of the most absurd and terrifying pseudomythologies in the history of modern literature. So, how is it that some of his audience came to take his cosmology seriously? http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/129146-cults-of-an-unwitting-oracle-the-unintended-religious-legacy-of-h.-p/ 8 comments books
- To fix the banking sector, Simon Johnson is recommending some common sense regulations: “We need to put constraints on the size of our largest banks, we need to force them to hold a lot more capital, we need to properly regulate derivatives." So why has that proven so hard to do? http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/128012-lucky-numbers-economist-simon-johnson-explains-the-importance-of-13-/ 14 comments business
- One can't comfortably opt out of a social medium that has become part of everyone's standard reality, if you want to stay in their social sphere. With that in mind, I finally bought a cell phone. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/127301-the-future-of-intimacy/ 7 comments technology
- Do a Google Image search on virtually any American subject and you’ll get a whole lot of super heroes. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/124583-searching-for-meaning-emergent-signification-and-communal-consensus- 3 comments technology
- Media wants us to pay for content, and the iPad is engineered for that purpose. Everything about the gadget flows from that basic idea. Just follow the money. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/124923-the-ipad-as-escape-pod 34 comments technology
- The cutting-edge of literary studies uses brain scans and evolutionary psychology to fashion a science of reading, but these techniques have already been at work crafting the latest and most invasive phase of capitalism. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/neurocriticism-and-neurocapitalism 3 comments science
- Penguin & the iPad: Taking Books to the Next Level, or Leaving Them in the Dust? http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/123237-penguin-the-ipad-taking-books-to-the-next-level-or-leaving-them-in-t/ 5 comments books
- A World Without Books? A Massachusetts prep-school's library goes digital, offering its students the ability to access millions of books and countless journals and magazines -- and all hell breaks lose. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/120777-a-world-without-books/ 13 comments books
- "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life": We so want our geniuses to be perfect people. Or at least nice people -- and so often they aren't. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/121259-raymond-carver-a-writers-life/ 3 comments books
- 'Catcher in the Rye' is a great novel, but it’s not good. When you're more Ferris Bueller than Holden Caulfield, it's hard to relate to his alienation -- no matter how much teachers want you to. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/120618-why-i-dislike-rye-not-be-holden-to-salingers-catcher/ 43 comments books
- Seymour is the presence you are sure you encountered before the door shut and he was gone; in this way, Seymour (not Holden) becomes the emblem for Salinger himself. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/120303-j.d.-salingers-seymour-a-eulogy/ 4 comments books
- The Cult of Kindle and the Myth of Digital Utopia http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/119417-the-cult-of-kindle-and-the-myth-of-digital-utopia/ 16 comments books
- Unlike athletes like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson never 'used' the media to project an image of himself as a flawless human being. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/119336-allen-iverson-101/ 35 comments sports
- It's now possible to download e-books for free from piracy Web sites. How will the already downtrodden publishing industry fight back? http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/113058-the-e-book-pirate-ship-sets-sail/ 42 comments books
- My inner refinement is revealed by my altogether genuine and natural pleasure in Brahms while your innate vulgarity is inevitable and unavoidably revealed by your unthinking joy in Coldplay. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/ideology-and-aesthetics/ 11 comments philosophy
- Familial or political, conservatives in America actually have no moral boundaries whatsoever. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/110012-rabid-and-rascally-creatures-richard-brookhisers-happy-darkies/ 5 comments politics