In this remembrance of Jules Feiffer we reprint a 2018 interview with the Voice legend, who talked about the panoply of his characters that live on in film, on the stage, and in print and pixels.
“Suicide, especially one as violent as Cobain's, is the loudest possible invocation of silence; it's a perfectly clear way of turning your life into a mystery.”
With Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull on tour in 2023, we turn to an archive piece from their Golden Anniversary jaunt, in which we pointed out that the Voice never much liked the lads from England. Is it time to give the old sod on the park bench a break?
The fundamental question about the Koch administration is no longer why the mayor gave power to so many crooks, but exactly what happened years ago when whistleblowers, law enforcement investigators, and private citizens first tried to warn him
Before Roe, terminating a pregnancy meant confronting a nightmare of quacks and butchers, knitting needles and wire coat hangers. The exceptions were people like Dr. X, “the stars of the underground abortion circuit.”
"Suicide, especially one as violent as Cobain’s, is the loudest possible invocation of silence; it’s a perfectly clear way of turning your life into a mystery."
“Jewish children in years to come may live much like my parents, with a subtle but consuming sense of dread. America could yet turn out to be not so different from the Old World my grandparents fled.”
“There are times when the subway, like the city itself, seems so grotesque that, indeed, one wonders how this entire enterprise can continue to call itself human. Much less continue.”
Almost three decades before his “A Christmas Story” became a TV staple, the radio maestro took a look at Christmas Yet to Come in the pages of the Voice.
