from the archives

VOICE OF THE AGES

Jules Feiffer in Context

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.

by R.C. Baker

January 22, 2025

From The Archives

No Future

"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."

by Ann Powers

August 5, 2024

MUSIC ARCHIVES

Never More

“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.”

by Ann Powers

Originally published: April 19, 1994

MUSIC ARCHIVES

Jethro Tull, 50 Years On. Should We Care?

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?

by R.C. Baker

Originally published: September 10, 2018

NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

The Mayor Who Didn’t Want To Know

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

by Jack Newfield

Originally published: February 3, 1987

From The Archives

The Abortionist on the Circuit of Fear

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.”

by Marlene Nadle

Originally published: August 18, 1966

ART ARCHIVES

On the 100th Anniversary of Opening King Tut’s Tomb, All That Glitzes Is Still Not Gold

“The question is, why are all these personal treasures in New York, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, instead of with the sun god Ra?”

by Rosalyn Drexler

Originally published: December 12, 1978

ART ARCHIVES

Can I Interest You in a Masterpiece?

Christian Jankowski Mines Conceptual Gold from Artistic Dross

by R.C. Baker

Originally published: July 28, 2018

From The Archives

The New Anti-Semitism: A Geshrei

“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.”

by Richard Goldstein

January 4, 2020

Transit

A Ride on the New York Subway

“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.”

by Vivian Gornick

Originally published: December 21, 1972

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."

“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.”

“The question is, why are all these personal treasures in New York, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, instead of with the sun god Ra?”

Christian Jankowski Mines Conceptual Gold from Artistic Dross

“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.”

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

“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.”