Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

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

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

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

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.

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