Noah Berlatsky

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

"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.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.