Dwight MacDonald

A Short History of Cinema's Long Passing

The sky keeps falling!

You Cannot Send Shit Through the Internet, and Other Life Lessons from Critic Dave Kehr

Dustin Hoffman, Jules Feiffer, Other NY Liberals Go GaGa for Eugene McCarthy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 23, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 32 The Limits of Power In a Garden of Delights by Michael C. D. Macdonald At first, things don't look good. Backstage, a network reporter complains, "no crowd releases, seats look a bit empty as the show st ... More >>

Village Voice Critics Choose Best Films of 1965

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 13, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 13 Film Critics Choose Their Favorites for 1965 By Jonas Mekas Once more we are playing the Best Movies of the Year game. The usual answer this year is that even the best ones are hardly worth listing a ... More >>

Clip Job: Maysles Brothers, Misunderstood in Their Time

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 11, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 25Movie JournalBy Jonas MekasFor several months I have been hearing about the new film by Al and David Maysles, "The Showman." The Maysles brothers, in case you don't know, were responsible (together with Ricky Leac ... More >>

Clip Job: Krim Kneecaps the New Yorker

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 8, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 3Who's Afraid of the New Yorker Now?By Seymour KrimThere used to be a time, let me tell the younger generation, when the New Yorker had sting, when its latest short story was discussed all over town, when any self ... More >>

Clip Job: Mailer Wouldn't Duck and Cover

Nixonian Tumult Remembered in Chicago 10

The circus of the '60s, from the streets to the courtroom

Magical Mediocrity Tour

Can you imagine—the whole country wired to Terry Gross's bourgeois ass?

Urbane Legends

The Importance of Being Ernst

To Eire Is Human

Joe Gould's Secret History

The Diary of a Legendary Village Bohemian Surfaces at NYU