Noah Berlatsky

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

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

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.

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

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

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

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

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

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.