Noah Berlatsky

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

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

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.