Noah Berlatsky

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

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?