Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

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

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

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

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

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.