Noah Berlatsky

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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

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.

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

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

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

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

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."

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.