Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

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

"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.

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.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.