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Jean Genet

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Edmund White And Larry Kramer Buried The Hatchet

    And the entire LGBT community can rest a little easier. In the new Gay & Lesbian Review, author Edmund White says: "Kramer is notoriously provocative. "Larry was resentful that I was away living in Paris in the middle of the AIDS crisis.

  • Film

    December 1, 2010

    I Love You Phillip Morris Liberates Jim Carrey's Libido

    And the entire LGBT community can rest a little easier. In the new Gay & Lesbian Review, author Edmund White says: "Kramer is notoriously provocative. "Larry was resentful that I was away living in Paris in the middle of the AIDS crisis.

  • Film

    November 10, 2010

    Poison at 20

    And the entire LGBT community can rest a little easier. In the new Gay & Lesbian Review, author Edmund White says: "Kramer is notoriously provocative. "Larry was resentful that I was away living in Paris in the middle of the AIDS crisis.

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    On Odd Future, Rape and Murder, And Why We Sometimes Like the Things That Repel Us

    Odd Future and Mos Def in New York, circa two days ago. Photo by Brook Bobbins.​By now you've heard about Odd Future, the polarizing Los Angeles rap collective that got a lot of New York-based critics and labels pretty excited the other night in the basement of Webster Hall. And if you've list ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2010

    Poison

    Odd Future and Mos Def in New York, circa two days ago. Photo by Brook Bobbins.​By now you've heard about Odd Future, the polarizing Los Angeles rap collective that got a lot of New York-based critics and labels pretty excited the other night in the basement of Webster Hall. And if you've list ... More >>

  • Theater

    March 24, 2010

    Spring Guide: Theater

    Jay Scheib adapts Samuel R. Delany's epic science-fiction classic Dhalgren

  • Film

    October 13, 2009

    Good Housekeeping in Sebastián Silva's The Maid

    Cleaning up the thorny role of a live-in maid

  • Theater

    August 4, 2009

    JoAnne Akalaitis' The Bacchae at the Public

    Sixteen years after a controversial departure, a return

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Clip Job: Jack Newfield's 'Mugging the White Liberal'

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 25, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 36Mugging the White LiberalBy Jack NewfieldImagine three goldfish dropped into a fish tank filled with sharks. Or imagine Billy Budd mugged by the Emperor Jones.Then you might have some idea of the malevolent and paran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    Clip Job: Jonas Mekas Jailed!

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 12, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 21Mekas JailedBy Stephanie Gervis HarringtonThe New American Cinema has run afoul of the old American determination to keep our culture clean. The first casualties were Village Voice film critic and new wave movie-mak ... More >>

  • Theater

    January 28, 2009

    Authorial License Hangs Over Edmund White's Terre Haute

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 12, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 21Mekas JailedBy Stephanie Gervis HarringtonThe New American Cinema has run afoul of the old American determination to keep our culture clean. The first casualties were Village Voice film critic and new wave movie-mak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Clip Job: Obies 1961

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 12, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 21Mekas JailedBy Stephanie Gervis HarringtonThe New American Cinema has run afoul of the old American determination to keep our culture clean. The first casualties were Village Voice film critic and new wave movie-mak ... More >>

  • Film

    October 1, 2008

    Best of the New York Film Fest's Nagisa Oshima Tribute

    The radical who left his will on film

  • Books

    October 1, 2008

    Interview With a Confidence Woman: Savannah Knoop on Being JT LeRoy

    In a (hopefully true) new book, the author reveals what it was like to be a (fake) young male writer

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    Clip Job: Eileen Brennan, Edward Albee and Obies 1960

    In a (hopefully true) new book, the author reveals what it was like to be a (fake) young male writer

  • Art

    August 5, 2008

    'Paper City,' Japanese Photographer Asako Narahashi, and More

    In a (hopefully true) new book, the author reveals what it was like to be a (fake) young male writer

  • Voice Choices

    August 5, 2008

    History Keeps Me Awake at Night

    In a (hopefully true) new book, the author reveals what it was like to be a (fake) young male writer

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2008

    Poison

    In a (hopefully true) new book, the author reveals what it was like to be a (fake) young male writer

  • Theater

    May 27, 2008

    Two New Productions Rant and Roll

    Mike Daisey lets loose, while Oedipus strikes some chords

  • Theater

    March 4, 2008

    Justin Bond in Lustre: A Midwinter Trans-Fest

    Mike Daisey lets loose, while Oedipus strikes some chords

  • Film

    May 1, 2007

    Gay, According to Genet

    BAM series takes literal approach in honoring French rebel

  • NYC Life

    April 24, 2007

    Radical Chic

    Black berets and leather coats are out, Ski Iraq tees are in

  • NYC Life

    December 12, 2006

    Through a Glass Darkly

    Smug penguins and bitchy snowflakes: An opinionated tour of the season's department store windows

  • Film

    July 18, 2006

    'Scanners: The 2006 New York Video Festival'

    Smug penguins and bitchy snowflakes: An opinionated tour of the season's department store windows

  • Books

    March 28, 2006

    Hustle and Glow: Edmund White Tackles

    Smug penguins and bitchy snowflakes: An opinionated tour of the season's department store windows

  • Books

    September 6, 2005

    The Original of Lolita

    Fifty years after that triple trip of the tongue, Nabokov's nymphet is as mesmerizing as ever

  • Theater

    May 3, 2005

    Watering the Off-Broadway Garden

    The founder of the 'Village Voice' Obies recalls what led to their inception 50 years ago

  • News

    December 28, 2004

    Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

    Remembering the voice of moral responsibility—and unembarrassed hedonism

  • Art

    October 5, 2004

    Richard Avedon, 1923–2004

    Who else would have put Genet, Chanel, Beckett, and Fabian within the same covers?

  • Film

    June 22, 2004

    Film

    Who else would have put Genet, Chanel, Beckett, and Fabian within the same covers?

  • Books

    February 3, 2004

    Late Bloomer

    Proust Stays in the Shadows, or, What the Housekeeper Saw

  • Music

    October 21, 2003

    Seamen and Booty

    Mutiny on the Bounty's what these stevedores are all about

  • Film

    July 8, 2003

    The Outside Chance

    Lust for Life

  • NYC Life

    July 8, 2003

    Listings

    Lust for Life

  • Film

    July 1, 2003

    Rio Men Have Curves

    Brazil's Working-Class Heroes

  • Theater

    May 20, 2003

    Beyond Neurosis

    What Kind of Political Theater Are We Really After?

  • Film

    May 6, 2003

    The Art of War

    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

  • Theater

    February 18, 2003

    Theater

    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

  • NYC Life

    February 4, 2003

    Close-up on Hunts Point

    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

  • News

    December 3, 2002

    Waiting for the Invitation

    PEN Forgets Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset

  • Theater

    July 23, 2002

    Theater

    PEN Forgets Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset

  • Film

    June 18, 2002

    Return to Paradise

    PEN Forgets Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset

  • Film

    April 16, 2002

    Codes Unknown

    PEN Forgets Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset

  • Columns

    September 18, 2001

    NY Mirror

    PEN Forgets Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset

  • Books

    July 3, 2001

    Gay Accompli

    PEN Forgets Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset

  • Film

    February 6, 2001

    Appetites for Destruction

    PEN Forgets Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset

  • Music

    October 24, 2000

    Checkin’ Out the Weather Chart

    PEN Forgets Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset

  • News

    August 22, 2000

    Trivial Necessities

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

  • NYC Life

    February 29, 2000

    French Toast

    The Pursuit of Paris

  • News

    May 11, 1999

    Queers in Space

    DUMBA Takes Off

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