Noah Berlatsky

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

"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.

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

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.