Noah Berlatsky

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.