Noah Berlatsky

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

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.