Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

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.

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

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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