Ezra Pound

The Whitney Finds the Good Thing About the '80s

HIGHER EDUCATION

Follow musicians all over town for the Great Learning

Taking It Slow At The Met's Street

Five Great Literary Landmarks of NYC: Taverns and Restaurants

The White Horse Tavern as it looks today Stay in one place long enough, many bars have found, and you're likely to eventually develop literary cachet. Indeed, many of the city's most venerable taverns - Old Town, McSorley's, and the currently-defunct Chumley's - are or were lined with the dust jac ... More >>

Ten Crucial Fourth Of July Jams, As Chosen By "Along The Watchtower" Author Constance Squires

​Along The Watchtower, the debut novel by Constance Squires, is a story of an Army brat whose tumultuous upbringing was kept steady in part by her discovery of rock and roll. It's published Tuesday, and in honor of its impending release and the coming holiday—don't forget, Monday's Ameri ... More >>

Dylan's Voice Archives: Mods And Rockers Face Off In An Epic Orgy Of Stage-Crashing And Fruit-Throwing

​We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City with videos, artist tributes, and old Voice stories about the man, the latter starting with this piece, first published on September 2, 1965, on the tension between Mods and Rockers at an early show during the divi ... More >>

Live: Jay-Z Talks Decoded and Ol' Dirty Bastard at the New York Public Library With Cornel West and Paul Holdengräber

Cornel West, Jay-Z, Paul Holdengräber. Photo by Jori Klein.​Jay-Z In Conversation With Cornel West and Paul Holdengräber New York Public Library Monday, November 15 Usually, says tonight's distinguished moderator, NYPL director Paul Holdengräber, "my goal at the library is to make the li ... More >>

Allen Ginsberg Explains Timothy Leary

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 12, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 9 Remarks on Leary's Politics of Ecstasy by Allen Ginsberg By the late '40s of this memory Century the people I knew best and loved the most had already broken through the crust of old Reason & were dow ... More >>

Q&A: Poet Michael Robbins Talks His New Poem, "Lust For Life," the Girls Song It's Named After, Nicki Minaj, and Why Burzum's Varg Vikernes Is A Moron

Jennifer Wild​The Chicago-based poet Michael Robbins is heroin for literary nerds and music nerds alike. Britney Spears, Pink, and Buju Banton have all crashed the gates of Robbins's poetry, which began appearing last year in the New Yorker; his newest piece in that magazine, "Lust For Life" ( ... More >>

Fug You -- Hanging with Ed Sanders

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 27, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 15 Rolling Stoned with Joyous 'Pornographer' By Stephanie Harrington Ed Sanders: "Fuck You" editor - publisher - printer - conceiver. Fugs founder. Pharoah fancier fantastic. Classicist, cigar store cle ... More >>

Clip Job: Mods vs. Rockers at Dylan Concert!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives August 26, 1965, Vol. X, No. 45 A funny thing happened on our way through the archives... We don't seem to have a copy of the August 26, 1965 Voice. Each of our library's two bound volumes for that period, for some reason, substitute ... More >>

Clip Job: Allen Ginsberg Likes Himself Naked

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesFebruary 4, 1965, Vol. X, No. 16Chamberlain's NudesBy Nicolas CalasAllen Ginsberg writes that he now likes to see himself naked "because for years I thought I was ugly, I still do, but no longer look at myself through my own eyes...I feel desi ... More >>

Clip Job: Remembering William Carlos Williams

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 7, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 20William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)By Stephanie GervisHis neighbors in Rutherford, New Jersey, remember William Carlos Williams only as a doctor, and he would have been proud of that. Younger poets, poets at least ... More >>

A Great Poetic Twosome: The Elizabeth Bishop-Robert Lowell Letters

Good thing Carl Sandburg's not around to read them. FSG publishes the complete correspondence.

Welcome to the Poetry of Polymath Clive James

Call him the UK Ozzie

Daily Flog 8/1/08: Bush aides, Williamsburg hipsters under attack!

Vapid Transit

'The Incomplete' reveals an art generation amusing itself into obsolescence

The Ugly Stick

Severed heads, devouring monsters, Marilyn Manson—Umberto Eco gazes at the grotesque

Watson's Double-Helix Double-Bind Double-Reverse

Striking Out

Only Emotion Endures

Contrary to Corinthians, a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Especially absolute rhythm.

Matrix Reloaded

New sensation: Clover's second book of poems takes on post–9-11 society—and contemporary poetry

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Books

Balancing Acts

A Matter of Life and Death

Sally Mann looks at history and memory, from Civil War battlefields to her own backyard

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Poetry Nation

Modest $100 Million Proposals, for Better or Verse

Dada's Mama

Drama of the Gifted Child

Arnaud Desplechin's Spiritual Adventures

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Turkey Shoot 2001

Diagnosis: Artist

In Two New Films, the Creative Personality Becomes a Pathological Type

Redressing Chanel

Karl, Coco, and the Met

Bloom-in’ Hypocrisy!

The Moralist’s Big Fibs

Joe Gould's Secret History

The Diary of a Legendary Village Bohemian Surfaces at NYU

Street Smarts

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