Noah Berlatsky

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

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

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

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

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.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.