Noah Berlatsky

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

"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.

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

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

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.