Noah Berlatsky

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

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.