Noah Berlatsky

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

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.

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

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

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

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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

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

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

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