Noah Berlatsky

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.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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

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

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

"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.

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

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