Noah Berlatsky

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

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

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?