Noah Berlatsky

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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

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

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

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

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

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?