Noah Berlatsky

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.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

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.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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