Noah Berlatsky

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

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

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

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.