Noah Berlatsky

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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

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

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

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?

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

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

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