Noah Berlatsky

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

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

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.