Noah Berlatsky

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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.

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

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