Noah Berlatsky

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

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

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.