Noah Berlatsky

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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

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

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.