Noah Berlatsky

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

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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

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.

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

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.