Noah Berlatsky

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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

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

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.