Noah Berlatsky

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

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

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

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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