Noah Berlatsky

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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

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

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.