Noah Berlatsky

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

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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

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

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

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

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.