Noah Berlatsky

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

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

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.