Noah Berlatsky

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

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

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

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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