Noah Berlatsky

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

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

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

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.