Noah Berlatsky

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

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

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

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.