Noah Berlatsky

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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.