Noah Berlatsky

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

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

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

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.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

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.

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

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.