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Serious Beach Reads

VOICE CHOICE

Print Is Still Kicking Butt at the 2026 Brooklyn Book Festival

The multitude of literary events sprawled across Brooklyn and all five boroughs are a tribute to the medium’s enduring power.

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SEVEN DECADES

Checking Out the Latest Beachworthy Crime Novels – in 1984

Four decades ago, the Voice published a wrap-up of mystery tales that would do today's carts outside the Alabaster and Strand bookshops proud.

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SEVEN DECADES

Shadowland – Surveying the Human Desolation of North Korea in 2005

Guy Delisle’s graphic novel from two decades ago still resonates during Trump 2.0.

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SEVEN DECADES

It Was 1984 – and ‘Neuromancer’ Caught Lightning in a Klein Bottle

Lost in a matrix: Searching out the Voice’s original review of William Gibson’s trailblazing cyberpunk masterpiece.

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NYC SITES

Pay Phones Ring in a Row: A Warning from a Cyberpunk Pioneer

A tableau in today’s Penn Station harks back to the sci-fi classic “Neuromancer.”

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SEVEN DECADES

Forty Years Ago – and Four Decades After Its Creator’s Death – ‘Krazy Kat’ Was Still the Comic Strip of the Moment

George Herriman’s drawings are masterpieces of dramatic economy, achieving miracles of individuation and expression through body language and suggestive absences.

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BOOKS

‘The Society of the Screen’ Spotlights a Prophet of Tech Anxiety

As early as the 1980s, Vilém Flusser was warning us about the “existential revolution” represented by the onslaught of digital technologies. 

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VOICE CHOICE

Tales for Our Times: Ed Park’s ‘An Oral History of Atlantis’

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author will discuss his new short story collection at three different NYC events.

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CULTURE

50 Years Gone of Vaughn Bode’s Sex, Violence, Graffiti, and Luminous Grace

The underground comix genius died in 1975, but his life is ripe for a Hollywood biopic. 

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History Bites

Back to the Future: Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July Barn Burner

In 1852, the former slave and forever abolitionist called out America’s basest hypocrisies.

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