Noah Berlatsky

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

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

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

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.

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.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."