Noah Berlatsky

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

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.

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?