Noah Berlatsky

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

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

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

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

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.

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

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.

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