Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

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

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

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.