Noah Berlatsky

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

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.

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

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.