Noah Berlatsky

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

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.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.