Noah Berlatsky

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

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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.

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

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

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?