Noah Berlatsky

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

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

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

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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

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

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