Noah Berlatsky

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

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

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

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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

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.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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

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?

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