Noah Berlatsky

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

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

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.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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.