Noah Berlatsky

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

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

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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

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

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?

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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