Noah Berlatsky

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

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

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

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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

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