Noah Berlatsky

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

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

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.