Noah Berlatsky

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

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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

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.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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?