Noah Berlatsky

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

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

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

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

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

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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

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

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

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