Noah Berlatsky

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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

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.