William Butler Yeats

Free Will Astrology: May 1-7, 2013

The Irish Battle in Katie Roche and Donnybrook!, Chinese-Americans in Hwang's Dance and the Railroad

Identity crises

Barboncino: Naples Staples

Crown Heights gets its own fancy Italian pizza parlor

A HARSH LAND

Enda Walsh’s latest comes to Brooklyn

Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie

Poetry in Motion May Return to NYC Subways

​When the G train is 45 minutes late, then stops midway through your route for 20 minutes because the train in front has just broken down, the last thing you want to do is stare at an MTA-sponsored sign that states, "Improvements don't just happen." Which is why we're all a bit happier to lear ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Lesson of the Japanese Disaster: We Need More Nuclear Power Plants! (Plus Obama Sux!)

Last week Japan was hit by earthquake, tsunami, and volcano. As the country tries to come back from this series of disasters, donations are pouring in from world citizens. Rightbloggers are doing their part, too. They're using the catastrophe as a teachable moment to explain that Obama sucks, glob ... More >>

An Irishman Bemoans St. Patrick's Day

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 23, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 12 A terrible blather is born By Joe Flaherty This piece is dedicated to Frank McCourt who, with the wisdom of Solomon, spent the day lying on his bloody Irish are. Sweet suffering' Jesus, thank be it i ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: November 24 through 30, 2010

Free Will Astrology: October 27 through November 2

Pigskin Preview: Eating the Barbecued Hog Head at Fatty 'Cue

​Ta-dah! Here's your blackened pig head. A couple of nights ago, Mayur, Jessica, and I went down on a pig head...

Jane Lane: "Post-nuclear Fashion Victim" Drag Queen: Alleged Ear Biter of Manhattan Model

via the Daily NewsJames Leahy (L), Ronnie Brown (R)​Apparently, a nibble wasn't enough for James Leahy (drag name Jane Lane), who channeled his inner cannibal at Highbar on 48th St. Sunday night. Today, the Daily News broke the story that he is out on bail awaiting trial, and that the mangled ... More >>

With Inception, Can Christopher Nolan Save the Summer?

Summer Guide: Pulitzer Winner Jonathan Weiner Follows the Search for Immortality

Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging

Free Will Astrology: February 10 to 16, 2010

A Chinese Factory Reborn as Condo Heaven in 24 City

And a Lama reincarnate in Unmistaken Child

Next to Normal and Joe Turner: Visions on Broadway; Yeats Project: Near Myth

DUBLIN CALLING

A trip through the works of Yeats

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 >>

Terence Davies Puts a New Spin on Hometown Pride in Of Time and the City

Interview: Natasha Wimmer, Translator of Roberto Bolaño's 2666

Clip Job: Buck Mulligan is Dead

Coetzee Does Coetzee (Sort of)

The Nobel Prize winner's latest work is a tricky mix of essay, fiction, and memoir

Provincializm #17: I’m Not There Again

He Is Legend

The Japan Society remounts Harry Partch's "total theater"

Horoscope

Dear Abbey

The magnificent Abbey Lincoln tackles the most vital songbook yet: her own

Book of Daniel

Prophet margin: Five years before Aztec god returns!

Harlem Improv Troupe Gets Almost Highfalutin After a Dozen Years

Motel Fix

The master of the Southwestern gothic novel breaks his friscalating prose and heads indoors

Synge's Play Once Caused Riots; This Time It's Mostly Yawns

Horoscope

Horoscope

Horoscope

Cyborg Liberation Front

Inside the Movement for Posthuman Rights

Horoscope

For Adults Only

Radical Revisions of the Spiritual Life

Film

Should Writing Hurt?

A Conversation With Master Fictioneer Harry Mathews

Effective but Defective

Tom Waits Wears His Mask Like a Pro

Horoscope

His-Uh Way-Uh

Babylon Now

Bucking the System in Bizarro World

The Fans' Notes

El Fanático

We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place

Mind/Body/Spirit Special

Consumer Guide

Tropical Truth