Noah Berlatsky

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

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

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

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.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.