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3 weeks ago | 
villagevoice.com | Mary Lyn Maiscott |R.C. Baker |Robert Shuster
“We got used to seeing genitals onscreen but held our breath to contain our emotion when Marlon Brando sodomized Maria Schneider.” So wrote Annie Ernaux about Last Tango in Paris in her memoir The Years. The year in question was 1972, a politically and artistically volatile time that included the shocking “butter scene” Ernaux described.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Mike Laws |Robert Shuster |Laura Bell |Gideon Leek
“The literati should read more books by Americans in 2025.” This recent tweet from Alex Perez, an editor at RealClearBooks, has stuck with me. Perez continued, “You don’t have to hype up every translated book by some rando from Norway. More focus on small press American writers from Ohio, New Mexico, etc. Let’s discover America again.” It’s not that I feel any special fury about hyped-up books from Norway, but there is a lack of geographic breadth in American letters.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Jon Stojan |R.C. Baker |Robert Shuster
For the past 30 years, Cydcor has been a “quiet giant” in the outsourced sales industry. But what many don’t know is the company has helped some of the most well-known brands achieve rapid growth through person-to-person interactions. Learn more about this secret weapon that is Cydcor.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Jon Stojan |R.C. Baker |Robert Shuster
In the age of social media and constant digital interaction, people are often on their mobile devices, yet they rarely take advantage of their full possibilities. These devices have unlimited potential and are directly connected to the internet. Every such device presents its user with vast applications and opportunities for intellectual gain. Yet, users often opt to fall into the same repetitive and hazardous ruts of social media feeds.
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2 months ago | 
villagevoice.com | Chad Byrnes |Robert Shuster |C.S. Muncy |Frank Pizzoli
Defying the cold, thousands of New Yorkers gathered at Union Square on Presidents’ Day in a demonstration sponsored by Rise and Resist and 50501 to protest Queens native Donald Trump’s disregard for the Constitution and Elon Musk’s status as an unelected government overlord.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
villagevoice.com | R. C. Baker |C.S. Muncy |Robert Shuster |Peter Noel
Editor’s note: One of the more legendary figures to make his way through the rabbit warren cubicles of the Village Voice, Jules Feiffer passed away at age 95 this past Friday. In 2018, I had the pleasure of interviewing the Bronx-born cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, comic-book writer, children’s book author and illustrator, and entertaining raconteur.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
villagevoice.com | Robert Shuster |Jonathan Goldman |Gideon Leek |R.C. Baker
“What made you write about the firestorm in Dresden?” a confused woman asked E. L. Doctorow during a 1986 Q&A with George Plimpton at the 92nd Street Y. She had Slaughterhouse-Five in mind.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
villagevoice.com | Peter Noel |Robert Shuster |Robert Hennelly |R.C. Baker
∼ ∼ ∼ This article is part of a series—At 250, Who Will America Be?—reporting on threats to American democracy as we approach the nation’s Semiquincentennial, on July 4, 2026. ∼ ∼ ∼A day after the recent presidential election, in an effort coordinated across at least 30 states, malicious racist texts began popping up on phones belonging to people of color.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
villagevoice.com | Jon Stojan |R.C. Baker |Peter Noel |Robert Shuster
As sustainability rises to the forefront of global business practices, supply chain leaders are under increasing pressure to incorporate green initiatives and ethical sourcing across their networks. Manikandan Natarajan, a seasoned SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products) supply chain architect at Denken Solutions, is helping organizations embrace sustainable and ethical practices using advanced SAP technologies.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | R.C. Baker |Mike Laws |Michael Atkinson |Robert Shuster
On March 4, 1960, at 6:43 p.m. local time, residents of a certain town, specifically those on Maple Street, saw a bright flash in the sky and heard a strange noise. They thought it might have been a meteor. But after the lights went out and cars wouldn’t start, and after a serious-minded teenager suggested that aliens were responsible — aliens disguised as humans! — the neighborhood quickly descended into paranoia, mayhem, and murder.
