Noah Berlatsky

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?

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

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

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

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

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."

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?