Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

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.

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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