Noah Berlatsky

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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

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

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

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