Noah Berlatsky

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

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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?

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.