Noah Berlatsky

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

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