Noah Berlatsky

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

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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

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.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.