Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

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?

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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.

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

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