Noah Berlatsky

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

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

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

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

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

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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.