Noah Berlatsky
Noah Berlatsky is an American writer. He has written about politics and culture for The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, The New Republic, the Chicago Reader, Reason, and numerous other venues.
Berlatsky grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He earned an MA in History from the University of Chicago. He founded and managed a website called The Hooded Utilitarian, dedicated to comics and culture.
His 2015 book Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, published by Rutgers University Press in their series Comics Culture, discusses both the fame of the Wonder Woman character and the current neglect of the original comics. It also analyzes how her creator William Moulton Marston used the comics to discuss pacificism, dominance and submission, and lesbianism.
Berlatsky acted as communications Director for Prostasia, a now-defunct "child protection" organization that attracted controversy for its approach to [...].
His first full-length poetry collection, Not Akhmatova, was published in 2024 by Ben Yehuda Press. The collection includes translations of, variations on, and poems inspired by the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Berlatsky does not speak Russian, and he describes his engagement with Akhmatova as an examination of and response to the experience of Jewish diaspora. Gnarly Thumbs, a collection of "nonsense sonnets" that play with collage, appeared the next year.
Books and publications
- Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics (2015)
- Not Akhmatova (2024)
- Gnarly Thumbs: Poems (2025)
- Yet Another Heart of Darkness: American Colonial Films (2018)
- Fecund Horror (2016)
- Your Favorite Superhero Sucks (2016).
- Cuba (2013)
- Capital Punishment (2010)