Noah Berlatsky

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

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

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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