Noah Berlatsky

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

"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.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

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

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

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

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

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