The Village Voice covers multivalent writer Ed Park's local appearances to discuss his books "Three Tenses" and "Repairer of ...

If you love Japanese pop culture, put this on your cosplay, gaming, manga, and anime calendar, with a side of dumplings. The largest anime convention on the East Coast is bringing Japanese cool to ...

“As the New Dole dawns, we peer into our Kristol ball and see two years in Limbaugh with our Newtered president making ever more feeble attempts to recast himself as an old-fashioned TruMan.” ...

The Village Voice digs into the meta spoofing and pathos of Jane Schoenbrun's "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma." ...

Trementina's ventilation house: Vault entrance? What vault entrance? Over the years, we’ve talked to a lot of former Scientologists, many of whom worked at the church’s secretive desert headquarters ...

Given the lack of debate and discussion among educated blacks today, Harold Cruse’s remedies for the black intelligentsia’s failings seem more quixotic now than 20 years ago — particularly because ...

Brandon Teena (right) with Lana Tisdel in 1993. On December 31, 1993, a 21-year-old trans man named Brandon Teena was shot and stabbed to death near Falls City, Nebraska, by two other young men ...

The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend who hangs out on the CBGB scene a lot. She was regaling me with examples of the delights available to females in the New York subway system. “So ...

The citizen secures himself against genius by icon worship. By the touch of Circe’s wand, the divine troublemakers are translated into porcine embroidery. Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and its ...

John Maynard Keynes was twitted with changing his mind. He replied, “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” My favorite example of a change of mind was Norman Mailer at The ...

What Black American culture—musical and otherwise—lacks for now isn’t talent or ambition, but the unmistakable presence of some kind of spiritual genius: the sense that something other than or even ...