Noah Berlatsky

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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

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

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

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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

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

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.