Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

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

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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