Noah Berlatsky

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

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.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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