Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?