Noah Berlatsky

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?

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

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

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.

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

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

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

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