Noah Berlatsky

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

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

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

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

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

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

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?