Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

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

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?