Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

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.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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

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

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

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?

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