Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?