Noah Berlatsky

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

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

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

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

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

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

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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

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

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