Noah Berlatsky

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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.