Noah Berlatsky

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

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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

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

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.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.