Noah Berlatsky

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

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

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

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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

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

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

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.