“The new paternalists really think, it seems, that their utterances of the oldest racial cliches are, somehow, a demonstration of their liberation from the hanky-panky of liberalism and God knows what else”

“The play entertains the forbidden nightmare of the liberal: what, dear Lord, if the reactionary is correct, and people are horrible. Yet, with the same breath, it is revolutionary”

Fifty years ago the Voice profiled the legendary actor, who died July 9, at the age of 88

A special supplement — with selections from 30 years of the Voice — dedicated to the artists of Off-and Off-Off-Broadway.

“Mailer said at one point that it was necessary to forge a ‘hip coalition of the right and the left’ ”

Remembering one of the Village Voice’s founders

“No one in the literary world told us more about what was going on in the 1960s politically, socially, and sexually than Mailer”