Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

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

"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.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.