Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

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

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

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.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

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

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