Noah Berlatsky

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

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