Noah Berlatsky

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

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.

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