Noah Berlatsky

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?