Noah Berlatsky

Articles

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  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.

  Noah BerlatskyMay 25, 2022

  • Noir

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  The Arbiter of Authentic Christianity

  Noah Berlatsky reviews Obery M. Hendricks Jr.’s “Christians Against Christianity.”

  Noah BerlatskyFeb 13, 2022

  • Religion

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  “The Turner Diaries” and Pulp Fascism

  How "The Turner Diaries" resembles classics of SF past.

  Noah BerlatskyFeb 5, 2022

  • SF

• The Virtues of Know-Nothing Criticism

  Discussions of films, or books, or comics seem to inevitably turn into discussions about accreditation.

  Noah BerlatskyDec 31, 2014

  • Literary Criticism

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  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."

  Noah BerlatskyDec 30, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Noir

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  The Genetics of Genre, the Genre of Genetics

  Noah BerlatskyNov 18, 2014

  • SF

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  Spoiler Alert: Your Art Should Be Ruined

  Does worrying about spoilers detract from enjoyment more than the spoilers themselves?

  Noah BerlatskyNov 8, 2014

  • Film

  • Television

• 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.

  Noah BerlatskyAug 18, 2014

  • Television

• 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?

  Noah BerlatskyJul 22, 2014