Ashley Fetters

Ashley Fetters writes for and produces The Atlantic's Entertainment channel.

A Field Guide to Blockbuster Season: 22 Films to See This Summer

A Field Guide to Blockbuster Season: 22 Films to See This Summer

Featuring Superman, clumsy cops, monsters of all statures, and Oprah More »

The Tyra Banks Matriarchy: A Scholar's Take on <i>America's Next Top Model</i>

The Tyra Banks Matriarchy: A Scholar's Take on America's Next Top Model

In honor of the beloved reality show's 10th birthday, a conversation with Rhonda Loverude, who wrote her doctoral dissertation on hegemonic heterosexuality in ANTM More »

'An Epidemic, Basically': A Conflicted Weight-Loss Blogger on #Thinspo

'An Epidemic, Basically': A Conflicted Weight-Loss Blogger on #Thinspo

Paige Padilla, 17, explains what's really going on with that controversial "thinspo" hashtag, and why eliminating pro-eating-disorder content online might be harder than it seems. More »

What Beyoncé Could Learn From Ke$ha: How to Actually Humanize a Pop Star

What Beyoncé Could Learn From Ke$ha: How to Actually Humanize a Pop Star

Ke$ha's new MTV documentary My Crazy Beautiful Life shows its subject doing something Beyoncé's video autobiography Life Is but a Dream never did: failing. More »

David Sedaris's Sorta-Secret Side Career as a Speech Writer for High Schoolers

David Sedaris's Sorta-Secret Side Career as a Speech Writer for High Schoolers

Why does the best-selling humorist's new book include six monologues for teen speakers? Because Sedaris moonlights as a hero in the world of competitive high-school forensics. More »

Hear the Weird, Lovely A Cappella Suite That Won the Pulitzer Prize for Music

Hear the Weird, Lovely A Cappella Suite That Won the Pulitzer Prize for Music

Caroline Shaw's Partita for 8 Voices sounds like music and then some. More »

Margaret Thatcher's Tart Words About Women in Power

Margaret Thatcher's Tart Words About Women in Power

The former Prime Minister's statements about gender illustrate her complicated feminist legacy. More »

Will the '70s Be as Unkind to Don Draper as They Were to Real-Life Mad Men?

Will the '70s Be as Unkind to Don Draper as They Were to Real-Life Mad Men?

Reading the scholarly literature on the Watergate-era backlash against advertising More »

Sorry, Syracuse: Why the 'Hot Hand' in Basketball (Maybe) Isn't a Real Thing

Sorry, Syracuse: Why the 'Hot Hand' in Basketball (Maybe) Isn't a Real Thing

Reading the scholarly literature on shooting streaks More »

What Happened to Rainbows? Why Facebook Turned Red for Gay Rights

What Happened to Rainbows? Why Facebook Turned Red for Gay Rights

A brief history of color use in LGBT-rights campaigns More »

People Talk About Brittney Griner Like She's a Basketball Player, Because She Is

People Talk About Brittney Griner Like She's a Basketball Player, Because She Is

Women in sports used to be evaluated by their personality or appearance, not their athleticism. This is changing, finally. More »

Chinua Achebe's Legacy, in His Own Words

Chinua Achebe's Legacy, in His Own Words

In 2000, the Nigerian author told The Atlantic he wished to inspire voiceless peoples to share their own histories and create a global "balance of stories." More »

Why Are There So Few Female Magicians?

Why Are There So Few Female Magicians?

For starters, it's hard to find dresses that can hide doves well. More »

How (Not) to Get a Pope Elected, as Imagined in 'The Atlantic' in 2003

How (Not) to Get a Pope Elected, as Imagined in 'The Atlantic' in 2003

A short work of fiction from the archive provides some tongue-in-cheek insights into the selection of the Catholic Church's highest officer. More »

Still Abiding After 15 Years: The Laid-Back World of 'Big Lebowski' Worship

Still Abiding After 15 Years: The Laid-Back World of 'Big Lebowski' Worship

A decade and a half after its initial release, the Coen brothers' comedy is less cult classic than actual cult. More »

Why 'Hot Gym Girl' Is a Grosser Nickname Than 'Hot Gym Boy'

Why 'Hot Gym Girl' Is a Grosser Nickname Than 'Hot Gym Boy'

Guys give fake names to members of the opposite sex behind their backs just like girls do—and often get in more trouble for it. More »

The Skeptical Early Reviews of Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique'

The Skeptical Early Reviews of Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique'

"[Friedan] demands that all women find a life purpose or career which will give them an independent identity and what she calls fulfillment. In that, she surely goes too far." More »

4 Big Problems With 'The Feminine Mystique'

4 Big Problems With 'The Feminine Mystique'

There are several "grains of salt" that deserve consideration in any discussion of the 50-year-old book's legacy. More »

There Are Almost No Obituaries for Sylvia Plath

There Are Almost No Obituaries for Sylvia Plath

A biographer explains the 'The Bell Jar' author's unusually quiet death 50 years ago More »

Was Ist das Super Bowl? What Other Countries Say About the Big Game

Was Ist das Super Bowl? What Other Countries Say About the Big Game

How international news outlets cover the festival of "commercials featuring animals and blue-collar sexist smut." More »

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