Noah Berlatsky

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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

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

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

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

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.