The toy company calls for a truce, but still gets a lot wrong

When does public photography become street harassment?

Why the franchise's female superfans really aren't as crazy as we make them out to be

A sex icon takes stock in the aftermath of her devastating houseboat fire and finds satisfaction as a mermaid.

Profit motive fuels the worst parts of Twitter — the trolling, the racism, Trump's account. What if it didn't?

A strange New York Times Magazine profile of the "Girls" costar disproves its own theory

Max Hardcore and other XXX pornographers awakened something dark in me. Or perhaps it was already there.

Hard at work on my anti-celebrity culture book, I was summoned, urgently, to be in a Sandra Bullock movie.

"Bob's Burgers" scribes, the Molyneaux sisters, spoke to Salon about their new comedy, the "Ironic" singer & bread

The authors of "Going Down" talk about the gag reflex and whether a man's mouth is different from a woman's.

Chicago won't stand for bus ads offering "funny" tips to would-be sexual predators

In plain and poignant language, Judith Moore's new memoir, "Fat Girl," chronicles her youth as an obese child starved of love.

Last night, HBO aired back to back shows, "Vinyl" and "Girls," that both ended on "Life on Mars?" Too soon, I say

On TikTok, stories can be manufactured and dramatized like an investigative gossip reel

In remembering the music video channel's legacy, let's also look at its success in connecting with young viewers