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Summer Books Guide: Padgett Powell's You & Me: A Novel

Our 10 Best New York City Restaurant Cookbooks

Going out to dinner in New York City can be an expensive endeavor, with entrée prices clocking in at $30. But you can eat four-star food at a fraction of the price: Cook it yourself using the restaurant's cookbook. Now, cookbook love is like any other type of love -- wildly subjective. Yet some of ... More >>

2009's Best Comics and Graphic Novels

Orpheus, Dick, and a little reefer: our annual round-up of the year's best

This Week in the Voice

In the TV business, you sort of expect executives to pad their expense accounts, use station employees to run personal errands, and even do personal work for profit on company time and equipment. But it's a little different when taxpayers foot the bill. Tom Robbins lays out how the city's broadcas ... More >>

Summer Guide: Lawrence Osbourne Pursues Redeemable Vulgarity in Bangkok Days

In the TV business, you sort of expect executives to pad their expense accounts, use station employees to run personal errands, and even do personal work for profit on company time and equipment. But it's a little different when taxpayers foot the bill. Tom Robbins lays out how the city's broadcas ... More >>

Clip Job: Ibiza, the Beatnik Paradise

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 14, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 34Beats Meet at IbizaBy Louise LevitasThis time of year, the beats are returning to Ibiza like birds in season. They're en route from Bloomsbury, Schwabing, Bleecker Street, Montmartre, and other coffee-house neighbor ... More >>

The Victorian Cult of Beauty Infuses Hedda Gabler and Freshwater

. . .But not their productions

Fall Preview: Poet John Ashbery Makes His Elliptical Way into Library of America

O, happy wrecking ball

Paul Beatty Conjures DJ Darky's Deutschland Daze

The author forsakes blogs! Returns instead with a new comic novel, Slumberland.

In the Dark

The author forsakes blogs! Returns instead with a new comic novel, Slumberland.

Horoscope

The author forsakes blogs! Returns instead with a new comic novel, Slumberland.

Chefs: They're Just Like Us!

The author forsakes blogs! Returns instead with a new comic novel, Slumberland.

'Shock to the System'

The author forsakes blogs! Returns instead with a new comic novel, Slumberland.

The Great Escape

VLS Beach Reads: Relax with a pre-Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, other people's notebooks, and a carnivorous plant

Chain Reaction

Do bookstores have a future?

Monster Mash

Uncovering a secret history of stuttering research

Flashback: The Cult of J.T. LeRoy

How a Teenage Hustler-Turned-Novelist Built a Celebrity Support Group

Table for Twelve

From bar mitzvah memories to video game worlds, this year's coffee-table books offers sentimental journeys

Ad Infinitum

Lost anvils, fallen women, misplaced prosthetics, and other old classifieds

Their Back Pages

Also by this Author: Remember when Martin Amis was writing about Space Invaders?

Books

Also by this Author: Remember when Martin Amis was writing about Space Invaders?

Tee Season

You cool kids are all wearing those zany slogan T-shirts? How quaint.

Parade Fatigue

To march or not to march? That is the Gay Pride Day question.

Oral Fixation: Mouths Wide Open at Splashy Pride Poetry Slam

To march or not to march? That is the Gay Pride Day question.

Eating for Arousal

Food lovers' favorite succulent treats turn meals into sexual feasts

Polar Eclipse

Hey, remember when climate change was a swell idea? Coconuts were in the offing.

Beach Lit 101

Savvy reading for spring and summer

Books

Our 27 favorite books of the year

Reader, Heal Thyself!

In a mini-religious revival, lit profs eschew cool, return to a humanist criticism

Cavity Creeps

Academics discover why horse skulls, bottles of urine, and other oddities keep turning up behind the walls of British homes

This Genteel Racket

Can't sell your book? Maybe your agent hasn't even read it—and never will

Hot Type

VLS Beach Reads: Detectives, drugs, denim, and an unusually high number of birds

Spanking the Monkey

The Strangest Children's Book of the 19th Century Teaches You the Facts of Life—Complete With Singing Vagina

New York Books

Urban Legends

The A-Bomb Kid

Don't try this at home: The end of the world as we know it is just a term paper away

Top Shelf

Our 25 Favorite Books of 2003

The Pain in Spain

Civil war and remembrance dominate annual series, along with liars, cheats, and killers

Books

Civil war and remembrance dominate annual series, along with liars, cheats, and killers

Uncommon Knowledge

A Talk With Ben Schott, Compiler of a Big Little Treasury of Trivial Facts

Dances With Woolf

A Talk With Ben Schott, Compiler of a Big Little Treasury of Trivial Facts

Fan Fare

Collecting This Season's Coffee-Table Books

Squeeze Play

Big Design for the Small Space

Theater

Big Design for the Small Space

Nam de Plume

Big Design for the Small Space

The Cult of J.T. LeRoy

How a Teenage Hustler-Turned-Novelist Built a Celebrity Support Group

Reading Rainbow

The Season's Topics Cover the Spectrum

Happiness Is a Warm Gun

An Interview With the Toy Collector

The Brainy Bunch

An Interview With the Toy Collector

The mullet

An Interview With the Toy Collector

Condécor

An Interview With the Toy Collector