Noah Berlatsky

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

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

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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

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