Noah Berlatsky

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

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

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

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

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

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.