Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

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.

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.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.