Noah Berlatsky

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

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

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

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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