Noah Berlatsky

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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

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

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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