Noah Berlatsky

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.