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?

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

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

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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