Noah Berlatsky is a freelance writer based in Chicago. He is the author of Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941–1948, from Rutgers University Press.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Getting Fooled Again: Rereading Agatha Christie’s “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” in the Age of Trump
Christie’s classic whodunit is a brilliant parlor trick of deception and misplaced empathy....
The Arbiter of Authentic Christianity
Noah Berlatsky reviews Obery M. Hendricks Jr.’s “Christians Against Christianity.”...
“The Turner Diaries” and Pulp Fascism
How "The Turner Diaries" resembles classics of SF past....
The Virtues of Know-Nothing Criticism
Discussions of films, or books, or comics seem to inevitably turn into discussions about accreditation....
The Cozy in the Closet: Josh Lanyon’s Holmes and Moriarity Series
"Christopher Holmes himself, that detective who is not the detective you expect, is out of the closet — and yet still often in its shadow, both actually and metaphorically."...
The Genetics of Genre, the Genre of Genetics
SERGEI LUKYANENKO’s sci-fi novel The Genome was first published in Russia in 1999, but 15 years later, in English translation, ...
Spoiler Alert: Your Art Should Be Ruined
Does worrying about spoilers detract from enjoyment more than the spoilers themselves?...
Building a Better Panopticon: “The Wire” as Melodrama
Linda Williams argues that the strength of "The Wire" lies not in its commitment to Dickensian narrative or Greek tragedy, but its melodrama....
On Octavia Butler’s "Unexpected Stories" and Margaret Mitchell’s "Gone With the Wind "
Many of Octavia Butler’s novels ask: how can the world get better when the dream of a better world for some has, historically, ideologically, and seemingly inevitably, meant a hell for others?...
