Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

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

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

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.

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

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

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.