Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

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

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.