Noah Berlatsky

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

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

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

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?

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

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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