Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.
Read...Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.
Read...Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.
Read...A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.
Read...The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?
Read...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?
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...Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.
Read...It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.
Read...To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.
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