The creator of a wisecracking high-school sleuth and a moving graphic memoirist wowed us this year with outstanding first books.

Everclear take one last swing at the great entirety of American pop music. Whiff!

The film did earn every inch of its nomination for best costume design, though—those dresses are gorgeous

Just kidding. They're still horrible

Nancy Drew taught me everything I needed to know about being a tough, independent woman. Too bad today's girls don't have the same role model.

My father's hometown of Eyl, Somalia, was once a pirate's haven. I sat down with an ex-pirate to learn why

A New Jersey case shows that even if a privileged man calls his own actions "rape," people will cover for him

The three most destructive words a father or mother can tell their young son? "Be a man"

Don't buy it if Disney's merchandising teams can't pledge to stop the "Star Wars" and Marvel gendered-toy insanity

The all-female creative team of a new YA film discusses heroes, zeroes and everything in between

The studio backs off the "p-word" for fear of alienating boys

Applauding the new range of Barbies is easy—teaching kids to look beyond their plastic toys for self-worth is hard

Why has exchanging insults become acceptable, expected and even desired behavior among young women?