Noah Berlatsky

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

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

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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