Noah Berlatsky

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

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

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

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.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.