Noah Berlatsky

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

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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.

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.