Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

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

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.