Noah Berlatsky

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

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

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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

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

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