Noah Berlatsky

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

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

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

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

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

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