Noah Berlatsky

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

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

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