Noah Berlatsky

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

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

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

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

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

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

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

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

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."