Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.
Read...Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?
Read...Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
Read...David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.
Read...Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.
Read...With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.
Read...While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.
Read...So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?
Read...Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.
Read...Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.
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