Noah Berlatsky

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

"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.

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

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

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