Smear Machine
From pulling needles full of dope out of Iggy Pop's arm just before showtime and helping turn Jim Morrison into a sex symbol (becoming Morrison's sworn enemy in the process), to unleashing the Ramones upon the world and later becoming one of the globe's leading music journalists, Danny Fields has be ... More >>
Why the late writer was our most important art critic
"Exit Strategies": PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Kronos Quartet with Rula Jabreal, Tony Kushner and Marjane Satrapai Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Metropolitan Museum of Art Wednesday, May 2 Better than: The funniest right-wing parody of what they think liberal Manhattanit ... More >>
Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we're publishing our interview wit ... More >>
Now that Newt Gingrich, newly amplified as a Presidential candidate, is regularly using Saul Alinsky as a club to beat Obama, the conservative obsession with long-dead community organizer has gone bigtime. Perhaps overexcited by this new opportunity to lecture America about one more thing that they ... More >>
"Red China" had been effectively closed to U.S. trade for years when President Nixon began softening things up in the 70s. Subsequent Presidents from both parties have followed Nixon's lead, and now, along with state visits like the one Chinese Leader Hu Jintao made last week to the White House, we ... More >>
Vikings, asses, and LSD—Voice writers pick their favorite books of the year
17 years in the making, Tony Kaye's epic abortion doc Lake of Fire. Plus: Gays and God in For the Bible Tells Me So
Unclear and present danger: Three-part polemic constructs novel narrative of neo-con game
Women, science, and a Harvard president's notorious remarks
Fear and loathing in the academy: Ward Churchill faces the dilemma of the holy whore
Patchily focused and unfinishable work from a slow-laboring ghost among the living
The Fine Art of Picking a Shtick
Radical Revisions of the Spiritual Life
Where Fear Is Always on Saleand the Truth Is Made to Order
As Moderate Groups Turn Down the Heat, Anarchists Light a New Way for Dissent
An Interview With Novelist-Turned-Activist Arundhati Roy
War vs. Peace: Novelists and Essayists Tell the 'Voice' Where They Stand
WBAI Fights Managements Move to Turn the Station into NPR Lite
Building owners hire spies to win evictions
Interventionist Liberals Sanction a Jingoistic War
The Left Reconsiders Its Relationship to Clinton and Comes Out Swinging Especially at Christopher Hitchens
