Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
Read...There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.
Read...The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.
Read...If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.
Read...Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?
Read...Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.
Read...The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.
Read...According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.
Read...Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.
Read...Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.
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