Finding Her Voice: A Year in Review [Podcast]

Hello and welcome to TYF’s newest podcast series, Finding Her Voice. Joined by editor in chief Gabrielle Bondi and film and television writer AJ Caulfield, we’ve come together to highlight, celebrate and discuss films directed by women. From the very…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of 2017

For the second year in a row, The Young Folks music staff has compiled a list of our Top 50 favorite albums of the year. For the 2017 installment we have expanded the list to include all 16 active music…

The 25 Best Films of 2017

Don’t trust anyone who likes to end the given year by saying “it was a bad year for movies”. They’re both wrong (obviously) and also, clearly, haven’t seen enough. The riches are there and sometimes you just have to look…

The Young Folks’ Top Ten Books of 2017

2017 was a great – no, fantastic – year for books, which made narrowing down my favorites to a Top Ten very difficult. Hence the numerous honorable mentions at the end. The books that made the list range from a…

The Young Folks’ Best TV Episodes of 2017

It’s the end of the year and, while many are thinking back on their year through a personal lens, we’re taking a look back on the last six months of television. As usual, there’s always a lot of TV to…

The Young Folks Best Video Games of 2017

    Oh, man. What an effort it was to get this list together. This year, we accumulated our writer’s favorite games and discussed, as democratically as possible, exactly what belongs in a top 10 video games of 2017 list.…

The Best Metal Albums of 2017

Metal will never, ever die; Not only because it’s a genre that constantly champions innovation and compositional evolution, but because it has served as a platform for marginalized perspectives and unorthodox voices throughout the entire globe since its creation. Besides,…