Noah Berlatsky

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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.

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

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.

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

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

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

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.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.