Noah Berlatsky

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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

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