Noah Berlatsky

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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?

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

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

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

"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.

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

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