Philip Larkin

The Best Art of 2010

Village Voice art critics pick their favorite shows of the year

Nabokov, Meet 50 Cent: Zadie Smith's Changing My Mind

The novelist gathers up a wide collection of her essays.

Cusi Cram's A Lifetime Burning Crams Stylish Fun into an Overfamiliar Tale

Interview: "Alien Vs. Predator" Poet Michael Robbins

After the New Yorker, a real press photo, maybe. The poet Michael Robbins lives in Chicago, quotes both Lil Wayne and Paul Muldoon fluently, and studs his criticism with punchlines like "This sort of thing is why punk rock had to be invented." His January 12 debut in the New Yorker, "Alien Vs. Pre ... More >>

Lit Seen: Michael Robbins's "Alien Vs. Predator" Explained; David Denby on Snark

Rilke takes some heat; New Yorker film critic thinks, 'Jeez, kids, enough already!'

Welcome to the Poetry of Polymath Clive James

Call him the UK Ozzie

The Best of 2007

Voice writers pick their favorite 20 books of the year

Homewrecker

The Sun Ra Guide

Magic cities and other planes of there, all disguised as jazz

After Mitchell-Lama

We were shelling out $400 every couple of months to pay for the lawyer

The Connections

Subterranean Homesick Poet

Film

The Belligerati