Noah Berlatsky

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

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

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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