By: Douglas Wolk

There are no South Africans mentioned in “Soft South Africans.”

By: Jessamyn West

“All systems go to kill the poor tonight.”

By: Mark Kingwell

The song is actually ironic, something I did not appreciate at the time.

By: Deb Chachra

“And if I start a commotion….”

By: Adam Harrison Levy

There is a powerful irony watching the film in August 2020.

By: Devin McKinney

A noir voice, voice of both the detective and the femme.

By: Adrienne Crew

It’s hard to be black in this world, and it always has been. But we will survive.

By: Dan Fox

The song was a top-notch comedy classic, a work of formal perfection.

By: James Parker

I was 11; I was at an all-boys boarding school in Suffolk, England.

By: Mimi Lipson

“Sex Bomb” was a party I wanted to get to.

By: Joshua Glenn

Our summer series on punk songs c. 1974–1983 begins…

By: Lisa Jane Persky

As quickly as we glean the gist it is more and less forgotten.

By: Sara Ryan

“The only industry left on our planet was the manufacturing of spaceships!”

By: Carolyn Kellogg

They just talk to each other, with the vast desert landscape as backdrop.

By: Karinne Keithley Syers

The precision of every visible movement, nothing naturalistic, not even the breathing.