Noah Berlatsky

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

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