Noah Berlatsky
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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.
Read...Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.
Read...David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.
Read...C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.
Read...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.
Read...Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.
Read...Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.
Read...Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
Read...The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?
Read...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?
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