Noah Berlatsky

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

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

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

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

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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