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“To enforce orders for repression — whether on racial, religious, or political grounds — fascist leaders need a lot of h...
12/06/2025

“To enforce orders for repression — whether on racial, religious, or political grounds — fascist leaders need a lot of help, particularly at the lowest levels.”

The Village Voice looks at four books that help navigate the black holes of Trump’s deceitful deportation and detention agenda.

Quint is the classic tough guy, who, with his harpoon and fishing tackle, aims to simply kill the thing. Hooper embodies...
10/06/2025

Quint is the classic tough guy, who, with his harpoon and fishing tackle, aims to simply kill the thing. Hooper embodies intellect, and the belief that knowledge equips us to outsmart our predators. Brody is the everyman…

The Village Voice looks at "Jaws" and how it portrayed masculinity way back in 1975, when it created the template for summer blockbusters.

Jill’s songs had a “for the people” effect because the melodies were so easy to remember and repeat but the content was ...
10/06/2025

Jill’s songs had a “for the people” effect because the melodies were so easy to remember and repeat but the content was powerful, smart, and deeply unapologetic. She had an amazing ability to create a sense of community wherever and whenever she performed.


In the Village Voice, alt singer-songwriter Tracy Bonham recalls a 2024 Joe's Pub gig of insanely catchy tunes by the much-missed Jill Sobule.

Between the covers of “Everything is Now” you’ll meet such luminaries of bohemia as “the chain-smoking, coffee-swilling,...
02/06/2025

Between the covers of “Everything is Now” you’ll meet such luminaries of bohemia as “the chain-smoking, coffee-swilling, already boozed-up” Jack Kerouac preparing for a spoken-word appearance at a jazz club, which, Hoberman writes, was “judged a disaster.”

The Village Voice looks at Jim Hoberman's latest, "Everything is Now," which will have a book launch party at Artists Space on June 6, 2025.

Settles’s leftist syllabus leads her deeper into the unknown, into the quandaries of her own decision-making, like a rea...
02/06/2025

Settles’s leftist syllabus leads her deeper into the unknown, into the quandaries of her own decision-making, like a real-life dawning of political consciousness.

The Village Voice review of painter Dianna Settles exhibition, “Enemy of the Century,” notes its blend of politics and human-scale utopias.

Robbins’s investigative legacy is etched into the very fabric of New York journalism.
29/05/2025

Robbins’s investigative legacy is etched into the very fabric of New York journalism.

The Village Voice obituary of Tom Robbins, the crime and politics reporter who never shied away from calling out the rich and powerful.

As Whitten moved into the early ’70s he retained a pointed consciousness in his work, but he also began pushing the tech...
23/05/2025

As Whitten moved into the early ’70s he retained a pointed consciousness in his work, but he also began pushing the technical boundaries of painting using a tool of his own design that he christened the “Developer,” a long-handled rake-like device.

This Village Voice review of the Jack Whitten survey at the Museum of Modern Art covers the artist's formal dynamism and evocative subjects.

This weird, mythic-post-Cold War, junior-James Bond paradigm, a childishly preposterous Rube Goldberg fantasy of faux-es...
23/05/2025

This weird, mythic-post-Cold War, junior-James Bond paradigm, a childishly preposterous Rube Goldberg fantasy of faux-espionage so many decades out of style, probably simply boils down to Tom and his distractingly boyish hair.

The Village Voice review of "Mission Impossible – Final Reckoning" notes that the Tinkertoy script is the most ponderous stunt of all.

The critique on NYC being a cultural center where the banal can make a name for themselves (in spite of themselves) stan...
23/05/2025

The critique on NYC being a cultural center where the banal can make a name for themselves (in spite of themselves) stands. I love NYC as one of the greatest cities on Earth.

In this Village Voice interview, Eli Kasan of the Pittsburgh punk band the Gotobeds, notes, "We love anything sh***y sounding."

The s*x in “The Seers” doesn’t reveal a deeper layer of the characters, nor does it titillate the reader. It’s not s*xy ...
20/05/2025

The s*x in “The Seers” doesn’t reveal a deeper layer of the characters, nor does it titillate the reader. It’s not s*xy or thoughtful, or even provocative, just comically unrealistic.

The Village Voice book review: Kinky s*x obscures a more interesting tale of asylum in Sulaiman Addonia's novel ‘The Seers.’

On November 5, 2024, God told jailbird Ricky Kurt Wassenaar to “Sacrifice him.” Ricky had no doubt what it meant. He was...
16/05/2025

On November 5, 2024, God told jailbird Ricky Kurt Wassenaar to “Sacrifice him.” Ricky had no doubt what it meant. He was to kill his new cellmate on behalf of a Donald Trump victory.

The Village Voice reports on Ricky Wassenaar, who killed fellow prison inmates based on the belief that God told him it would help Donald Trump.

By the time of the first Nuremberg Trials, between November 1945 and October 1946, Americans were so war-weary that inte...
07/05/2025

By the time of the first Nuremberg Trials, between November 1945 and October 1946, Americans were so war-weary that interest in the overseas tribunals and their focus on “crimes against humanity” was anemic, at best.

A Village Voice essay looks at Mario Puzo's first novel, "The Dark Arena" (1955), which gazes unflinchingly into the abyss of the Holocaust.

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