Noah Berlatsky

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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

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.

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

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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