Mary McCarthy

Harvey: Cheers for Booze

Fueled by alcohol, Mary Chase's classic comedy shows its enduring charm

The 10 Best Bitchy Comments Of All Time

​Who would know better than me? The 10 dissiest, wickedest, bitchiest sass-o-grams (whether in movies or in life) are as follows: 10) "She doesn't write, she types!" (Gore Vidal re popular author Jackie Susann) 9) "She looks like a truck driver in drag." (Truman Capote re the very same ... More >>

Eugene McCarthy Gets a Harsh Heckling by Edward Albee

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 28, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 4 The Candidate From Parnassus By Frederic Morton We're in 1971 and Presidential noises are loud in the land, coming from guys good and bad. I'm trying to remember the sounds of a Great Good Guy, hear ... More >>

Here's Yet More Proof the Village Is Never What It Was

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 7, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 1 'A San Remo type': the vanishing Village By Michael Harrington In 1949 the world was much younger than it is now. I had just arrived in New York from St. Louis, and was staying with a friend in a City C ... More >>

Why Norman Mailer Sucked as a Filmmaker

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 24, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 2 Films by Andrew Sarris Norman Mailer's "BEYOND THE LAW" (at the Art) represents an infinite improvement over "Wild 90," Mailer's maiden effort in cinematographic expression. "Beyond the Law" is at lea ... 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 >>

Super Bowl Springsteen Addendum: Walker Percy's "Fan Letter--of Sorts"

The Utne Reader unearths a fan letter from the novelist Walker Percy, agonized Catholic and literary giant, to Bruce Springsteen, somewhat-lapsed Catholic and the best we have to offer: Feb 23, 1989 Dear Mr. Springsteen-- This is a fan letter--of sorts. I've always been an admirer of yours, for ... More >>

Letters 12.31.08

Bloggers Vs. an Author: No One Wins

Thoughts on book tours, literary self-promotion, and one published writer's blog spat

Dykes, Drunks, and Divas in Fabulous '60s Chick Flick!

Lie, the Beloved Country

Two revivals of classic dramas show America's knack for denying the truth

Two If By Sea

A pair of non-English English plays forge into Broadway's deep waters

No Way Out

Pre-tech or postmodern, realist plays offer a glimpse at living death

Mr. Happy

In a law professor's debut novel, Homo academicus meets pseudologia fantastica

Show Me the Bunny

Appetite for instruction: the hungry mind of Edmund Wilson

Horton Hatches A Plot

When old playwrights look back, they sometimes see youthful thrills instead of nostalgia

Opus Heyday

The success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code excites interest in a secretive Catholic lay group—and further notes on the culture of conspiracism

Grave Occasions

Base Speculations

NY Mirror

Nooteboomtown

Netherlands' Novelists Descend Upon New York

Less Is Moor

Oldies = Goodies

The Brainy Bunch

Critical Condition

Assassins and Cash— In Search of a True Theater Discourse

Private Prisons

Zapping the Common Cold

Viral infections, from flu to hepatitis, have long been considered untreatable. But that's about to change.

Days of the Dead

Vietnam Lore