Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

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

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

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.