Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

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

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.