Norman Mailer

The Ugly Humors of Robert Arneson

In praise of a knucklehead

Love, Marilyn

4Knots Music Festival: Set Times, Afterparty Details Announced

The Village Voice's 4Knots Music Festival takes place this Saturday at Piers 16 and 17 of the South Street Seaport, and if you want to plan your day out we have the set times for the day, which will include performances by Archers Of Loaf, The Drums, Crocodiles, Hospitality, Bleached, Nick Waterhous ... More >>

Once Is Not Enough Is Must-See Camp

Any serious camp lover has surely seen classic films like Valley of the Dolls and The Love Machine, adapted from the works of the queen of glossy Hollywood sexcapades, the lacquered-haired Jackie Susann. But another gem from her cinema canon, 1975's Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough, is a cri ... More >>

New York Parties Are So Over

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 22, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 12 Wake up! The party's not over by Blair Sobol Perhaps Norman Mailer started it all. The latest craze is giving extravagantly dull parties. The bigger and more boring the better. Nowadays the success of ... More >>

A Goy in Wonderland

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 25, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 21 A goy in wonderland By Joe Flaherty The lamentable thing about life is that it is devoid of fanfare. Man's odyssey more times than not is heralded by a kazoo rather than a trumpet. The spiritual milest ... More >>

PRIVATE DICK

The man behind the man

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 >>

Octogenarian Showstopper Rules New York!

Revived: Marilyn Maye and Sally Kellerman. Clubs aren't dead yet, either.

Germaine Greer: Liberal, not Liberated

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 3, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 22 Germaine Greer is a liberal woman By Minda Bikman Last August 26, after 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue, a panel of feminists gathered in the studios of Channel 13 for a televised discussion on the ... More >>

Winter Guide: Lesley Manville Is the Toast of Mike Leigh's Latest Film, Another Year

A guide to winter movie releases

Asexuals Have Problems Too!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 25, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 8 Asexuals have problems too By Harold Nederland I'm sick and tired of the constant whining going back and forth in your pages between heteros and homos. After all, these people have their sex to keep t ... More >>

White Material and The Cry of Jazz: Races Clash, Revolutions Ignite

In Memoriam: Jill Johnston (1929-2010)

Jill Johnston died on September 18, following a stroke nine days earlier. The shock waves are reverberating. Perhaps we thought she was indestructible. Jill began to write about dance for The Village Voice in 1959, four years after Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, and Norman Mailer founded the small, feisty ... More >>

The Media T-Shirt Project!

​It's Summer, and as we all know, many businesses get slow in the summer. Media is one of these businesses, and in media, you have to diversify in order to stay afloat, or something. It's bad enough you have to concern yourself with the terrible fate of blogger burnout in this heat! But making ... More >>

Jonas Mekas, Raving Maniac, Champion of Visionaries

IT’S ALIVE!

Matthew Barney explores reincarnation

New York Times' Renewed Sense of Competition with New Funding Strategy: Satan

​Genius. Is there a better investment opportunity out there for a media outlet? The New York Times has apparently uncovered the answer to all of their fiscal issues of recent: Satan.

Clip Job: Newfield Makes the Case for Bob Dylan

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 26, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 15 Brecht of the Juke Box, Poet of the Electric Guitar By Jack Newfield Norman Morrison burned himself to death to protest the Vietnam war, and when reporters visited his spare room they saw quotes fro ... More >>

Pop Eyed: The Genius of Andy Warhol

A lively new look at the artist and his times

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: Newfield Surveys the Folk-Music Revolution!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

Bones' Beat: 1992009 at D'Amelio Terras

This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, reports back from D'Amelio Terras Gallery in Chelsea, where 1992009 juxtaposes contemporary stars from 1992 with the young gallery talent of 2009. What kind of shape are we in these days, anyway? Courtesy D'Amelio Terras It is important to note that t ... More >>

Authorial License Hangs Over Edmund White's Terre Haute

John Updike: 1932-2009

John Updike has died today, at the age of 76. In his life, and over his long, prolific career, the writer served both as kind of glittering emblem of the literary world--the youthful, WASP-y good looks, that mannered style, that impeccable education--and, eventually, of that world's old guard. Dav ... More >>

The New Yorker Looks at the Village Voice

We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

ENTER SANDMAN

Neil Gaiman gives you a nerd-gasm

Clip Job: Politics and the Beat Generation

Remembering Those Who Passed

Hillary's Pulling Out! As If!

Thursday | 5.15

Redbelt's Warrior King

David Mamet and his hero fight the power and succumb to it

Clip Job: Billie Holiday Sells Out Loew's Sheridan

Like Herding Sheep

De Niro takes a loooong, sloooow look at the history of the CIA

'The Outsider'

Last Night

On the other side: Brightness Falls sequel sets the Calloways adrift in the wake of 9-11

The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .

Close-Up on Brooklyn Heights

The Abominable Snowman

Plus housing in Warsaw and the thump thump of oral history's heart

Heroic Restraint

The tongue is mightier than the sword

Do Media Rule?

A response to those who think I was too kind to The N.Y. Times. Plus: the courage of the NYRB

American Graffiti

The Medieval Mob Squad

Close-Up On: Bedford-Stuyvesant

Spring Cluttering

The Numbers Game

New-School Baseball Stats From A to Z

Studio Apartment In Mid-19th-Century Brownstone

Back in the Daze

Hungry Hearts

A Romp Through the Fall Art Season

Vietnam Lore