Noah Berlatsky

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

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

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

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

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