Noah Berlatsky

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

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

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

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In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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