Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

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.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.