Noah Berlatsky

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

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.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

"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.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.