Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

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

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

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.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

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Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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