Noah Berlatsky

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.

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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

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

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.