Noah Berlatsky

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

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

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

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.