Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.