Noah Berlatsky

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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

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.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

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

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

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

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

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

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