Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

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

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

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

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