Noah Berlatsky

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

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

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.