Noah Berlatsky

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

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

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

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.