Noah Berlatsky

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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.

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

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