Noah Berlatsky

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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