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Susan Sontag

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Camp Is Dead--And Glee, Gaga, And Spielberg Killed It

    That's the message of this Observer article by Daniel D'Addario, which points to the way camp came out of the closet, became self-conscious, stopped being an in-joke, and just ain't campy anymore.

  • Theater

    January 11, 2012

    Avant-Garde January! It's Koltes, the TEAM, Toshiki Okada, and, er, Ira Glass

    A critical dive into the Under the Radar, Other Forces, and Coil festivals

  • Voice Choices

    December 29, 2010

    GREAT EXPECTATIONS

    The Paris Review gets a makeover

  • Voice Choices

    December 8, 2010

    WARHOL IN SLOW MOTION

    Screening work the way Andy wanted

  • Art

    October 27, 2010

    Paul Thek Gets a Major Retrospective at the Whitney

    Fake meat, real artist

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Partying Down at Bill Buckley's House

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 17, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 38 A Day at the Buckleys: Big Blight at Great Elm By Barbara Long SHARON, Connecticut -- Several months before Apollo 13's crew walked out on "Hair," setting us straight once and for all on just who the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Andrew Sarris Picks the Best Films of 1969

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    War Critics Rush to Join Spock

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 18, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 14 Viet Critics: They Put Themselves on the Line by Sally Kempton Last Sunday night at Town Hall more than 500 people put themselves on the line in active support of draft resistance. They were members ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    This Week's Voice: tUnE-yArDs, Lil Wayne's Rebirth, Alan Lomax in Haiti, Steve McQueen, the Red Riding Triptych, and More

    tUnE-yArDs, now proudly R-rated. Photo by Chrissy Piper.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla conducts an occasionally embarrassing chat with one-woman feral folk sensation tUnE-yArDs (contains sex talk!), Brandon Soderberg catches up with Howard Stern's favorite headbanger, Richard Chri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #7: Guilty Pleasures Without Guilt

    ​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. Previous reasons here, here, and here. ​If you had told us, at the beginning of this awful decade, that intelligent people would one day be writing essays -- serial essays, yet -- on reality ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2009

    Clip Job: The Gay Agenda Exposed! In 1966!

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 25 Pop Goes Homosexual By Vivian Gornick Last August there appeared on the cover of the magazine One a photograph of a young man dressed as an ancient Roman warrior in a toga and thonged sandal-shoes; on t ... More >>

  • Film

    November 24, 2009

    17th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 25 Pop Goes Homosexual By Vivian Gornick Last August there appeared on the cover of the magazine One a photograph of a young man dressed as an ancient Roman warrior in a toga and thonged sandal-shoes; on t ... More >>

  • Film

    October 13, 2009

    A Fetishist's Devotion Marks Black Dynamite

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 25 Pop Goes Homosexual By Vivian Gornick Last August there appeared on the cover of the magazine One a photograph of a young man dressed as an ancient Roman warrior in a toga and thonged sandal-shoes; on t ... More >>

  • Film

    October 17, 2006

    'Absolute Wilson'

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 25 Pop Goes Homosexual By Vivian Gornick Last August there appeared on the cover of the magazine One a photograph of a young man dressed as an ancient Roman warrior in a toga and thonged sandal-shoes; on t ... More >>

  • Music

    September 26, 2006

    A Honky Château Overrun by Drunk-ass Muppets

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 25 Pop Goes Homosexual By Vivian Gornick Last August there appeared on the cover of the magazine One a photograph of a young man dressed as an ancient Roman warrior in a toga and thonged sandal-shoes; on t ... More >>

  • Art

    August 15, 2006

    Beauties and Beastliness

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 25 Pop Goes Homosexual By Vivian Gornick Last August there appeared on the cover of the magazine One a photograph of a young man dressed as an ancient Roman warrior in a toga and thonged sandal-shoes; on t ... More >>

  • Art

    June 13, 2006

    Memento Mori

    Negotiating the distance between extremes of feeling and intellect

  • Theater

    April 11, 2006

    Dungeon Masters

    In Morris's Iraq war monologues, power is the ultimate aphrodisiac

  • Theater

    February 21, 2006

    O Holy Knight

    Sontag's timely reduction of Wagner's timeless opus

  • Screens

    November 29, 2005

    Docs Without Borders

    An activist filmmaking collective wants to change the world—one documentary at a time

  • Theater

    October 11, 2005

    The Art of Dying

    Isabelle Huppert brings suicide to life in Sarah Kane's final play

  • Screens

    March 22, 2005

    Pic Your Friends

    Phenomenology, folksonomy, and the reification of personal experience made fun, easy, and social

  • Music

    February 22, 2005

    Blast From the (Recent) Past: A More Mature Fischerspooner

    Phenomenology, folksonomy, and the reification of personal experience made fun, easy, and social

  • Film

    January 25, 2005

    Atrocity Exhibition

    An archival assemblage of World War I horrors ponders the political power of violent images

  • Specials

    January 18, 2005

    Letter to the Editor

    An archival assemblage of World War I horrors ponders the political power of violent images

  • News

    December 28, 2004

    Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

    Remembering the voice of moral responsibility—and unembarrassed hedonism

  • NYC Life

    December 28, 2004

    Who's More Annoying Than Osama bin Laden?

    Remembering the voice of moral responsibility—and unembarrassed hedonism

  • Film

    November 30, 2004

    Film

    Remembering the voice of moral responsibility—and unembarrassed hedonism

  • Specials

    June 29, 2004

    Letters

    Remembering the voice of moral responsibility—and unembarrassed hedonism

  • Books

    June 8, 2004

    Catfight Scorecard: Humanity and Virtuosity 1, Loftiness 0

    Remembering the voice of moral responsibility—and unembarrassed hedonism

  • NYC Life

    March 23, 2004

    Burning Bush

    Rushdie Rocks A Reading, Maestro Bumps The Quad, Tapis Rouge Goes Gay

  • NYC Life

    March 16, 2004

    Beating around the Bush: Writers get the word out on voting

    Rushdie Rocks A Reading, Maestro Bumps The Quad, Tapis Rouge Goes Gay

  • NYC Life

    January 20, 2004

    The big picture: Rethinking the uses and meaning of images

    Rushdie Rocks A Reading, Maestro Bumps The Quad, Tapis Rouge Goes Gay

  • Film

    July 22, 2003

    Children's Crusades

    The Kids Stay in the Picture

  • Books

    April 15, 2003

    Wishful Seeing

    On War-nography and Radical Willfulness

  • Art

    March 4, 2003

    Making History

    Two Photographers Shoot, Score

  • Film

    February 25, 2003

    The Imperfect Storm

    Fox and His Muse: Fassbinder Star Hanna Schygulla Revealed

  • Film

    January 21, 2003

    The Rebirth of Cinema

    Susan Sontag's Notes on Japanese Film

  • News

    March 5, 2002

    Managing the Unmanageable

    The Jewish Museum Puts a Therapeutic Frame Around Transgressive Art About the Holocaust

  • Film

    December 4, 2001

    All as It Had Been

    Hollywood Revises History, Joins the Good Fight

  • News

    October 30, 2001

    What Women Want

    Feminists Agonize Over War in Afghanistan

  • News

    October 2, 2001

    The Price of Unity

    Our Greatest Danger Is Becoming the Same

  • Specials

    November 28, 2000

    Letters

    Our Greatest Danger Is Becoming the Same

  • Theater

    November 14, 2000

    Sick of Fancy

    Our Greatest Danger Is Becoming the Same

  • Specials

    November 14, 2000

    Letters

    Our Greatest Danger Is Becoming the Same

  • News

    October 31, 2000

    Sontag in Wonderland

    Auteur Director Ivo van Hove Brings Some Radical Will to ‘Alice in Bed’

  • Books

    July 11, 2000

    The Light Stuff

    A Rough Guide to the Flash and Trash of Summer Reading

  • Theater

    July 4, 2000

    High Art in a Low Land

    The 2000 Holland Festival

  • Film

    January 18, 2000

    Debating the Death of Cinema

    The 2000 Holland Festival

  • Books

    October 26, 1999

    Lust for Lit

    The 2000 Holland Festival

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