Noah Berlatsky

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

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

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.

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

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

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.