John Leonard

Watergate Proving that Norman Mailer's Paranoia Was Prescient

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 12, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 28 Mailer's 5th Estate: Who's paranoid now? by Frank Crowther "Paranoia is the most useful or the most destructive faculty of the human spirit. One never knows when it's devoted to you or your destruction ... More >>

The Decade's Best Books

Join us as we leaf through the finest the publishing world had to offer

Lit Seen: John Updike and John Leonard, Writers at Rest

New York's literary community remembers two dominant, departed presences

This Week in the Voice

The American military presence in Afghanistan costs about $16 billion a month. What are we getting for the money? "Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation" by P.J. Tobia. When Alan Hevesi was the city's, then the state's comptroller, Jack Chartier and Hank Morris were his "two loyal gatekeepe ... More >>

This Week's Voice: "New Directors/New Films," DOOM, John Updike and John Leonard, Goodbye Solo, Best in Show, and More

Clockwise from top left: Autumn, fest-opener Amreeka, Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds, Cold Souls, and Mid-August Lunch. In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Phillip Mlynar asks DOOM, rap's biggest enigma, if he's heard any good jokes lately. Larry Blumenfeld crosses borders, hearts with th ... More >>

Critic John Leonard: Splendid, Libidinal

At the lively, elegiac, and author-studded memorial service held for the critic John Leonard in the church-like confines of Central Park West's Landmark on the Park, Leonard's son, Andrew, read a sad, playful eulogy that began: I recently completed a comprehensive computer analysis of my father's ... More >>

John Leonard: 1939-2008

The Beautiful Noise

The Expanding Role of Theater Sound Design

Marshall Berman’s Love Affair With Marx

The Informer