Noah Berlatsky

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?