Noah Berlatsky

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?

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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

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

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.