Noah Berlatsky

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

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

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

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

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

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

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.