Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

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

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?

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

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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