Noah Berlatsky

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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

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

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

"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.

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

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.

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