Noah Berlatsky

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

"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.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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

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.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.