Noah Berlatsky

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

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

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