Noah Berlatsky

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

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

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

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

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

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.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.