Noah Berlatsky

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.

"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.

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

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

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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