Soraya Roberts

Public intellectuals have their own version of the American Dream, where one person, on their own, can achieve anything — including being the smartest person in the room.

Why aren’t any of the new erotic thrillers as good as the classics of the 80s and 90s?

Celebrities act as symbols of capitalism. When we question it, we question them.

I figured out why the fashion industry keeps fucking up.

If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?

When did pop culture become homework? 

Journalism is still romanticized even though being a journalist is a complete shit show right now.

On women’s thirst and the men who are terrified of not quenching it.

I wrote about eating the rich, or, well, getting them to eat themselves.

I coined a new word.

The new makeover scene is internal and it sucks just as much as the last one.

Wrote about how all these guys are basically the same person.

Dylan McKay’s — I mean, Luke Perry’s — death reminds us that the teen idol was once very much alive.

Helen Childress was only 20 when she wrote the classic Gen-X film Reality Bites. So why has she spent the rest of her almost three-decade career writing scripts that don’t get made?

This is the new old Hollywood. Where Jack Nicholson was well-ensconced, now the seats of note are no longer occupied solely by the old white men who once claimed all the accolades for building the industry.

Instead of seeing yourself as an isolated individual and intervening as a way of potentially compromising yourself, you must see yourself as what you really are — a member of society, in which intervening is a way of saving not just on person, but all of us.

Pop culture never minded showing boys jerking off, but girls were never allowed the same outlet. That’s finally changing with the influx of female storytellers.