Noah Berlatsky

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.