Noah Berlatsky

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.