Voltaire

Seven Nights: The Week in Music

New Yorker Writer Appeals to French History to Explain Supremacy of Seattle Food Scene

​A lecturer so studiously sophisticated that he prefaces a quote from Voltaire by rhetorically asking his audience "do you know it?" seems an unlikely candidate to engage in a bit of culinary chauvinism. But Adam Gopnik, the New Yorker writer who's now traveling in support of his book The Tabl ... More >>

Opening Nights: Emilie

Voltaire's mistress is the real sage of enlightenment.

Emilie

Voltaire's mistress is the real sage of enlightenment.

Opening Nights: Candide

How do you solve a problem like Voltaire? The 5th Avenue tries.

Stage Preview: Uneasily Assimilated

Leonard Bernstein wrote a musical with a personality just as split as his own.

Candide

Leonard Bernstein wrote a musical with a personality just as split as his own.

Spring Arts Calendar

A guide to what’s up and what’s on, with our picks for the best.

Last Night: Voltaire at El Corazon

A guide to what’s up and what’s on, with our picks for the best.

Ask Voltaire or Rasputina: Tuesday Must Be Goth Night

A guide to what’s up and what’s on, with our picks for the best.

Freewheelin' Radio

Bob Dylan's record collection is as bizarre and intriguing as his public persona.

Music Calendar

Bob Dylan's record collection is as bizarre and intriguing as his public persona.

Music Calendar

Bob Dylan's record collection is as bizarre and intriguing as his public persona.

Music Calendar

Bob Dylan's record collection is as bizarre and intriguing as his public persona.

Music Calendar

Bob Dylan's record collection is as bizarre and intriguing as his public persona.

Music Calendar

Bob Dylan's record collection is as bizarre and intriguing as his public persona.

Music Calendar

Bob Dylan's record collection is as bizarre and intriguing as his public persona.

Music Calendar

Bob Dylan's record collection is as bizarre and intriguing as his public persona.

Letters to the Editor

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

The Rocky Horror Show, Wade Madsen, and The Creation

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Sept. 1724, 2003

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

Weekly Music Calendar

"By vilifying animal-rights activists for opposing animal research, all the press does is prolong the day that reasonable alternatives are discovered."

X-Men 2: Hugh Jackman in Coasting Mode

Comic-book sequel can't change its shape.

Love Among the Smarties

Minor romance yields major charms.

Love bites

Critics unleash their hearts—and barbs—on books about l'amour.

The White album

Edmund White on writing biography, Parisian dining and the sex appeal of Shakespeare.

It ain't easy being average

Edmund White on writing biography, Parisian dining and the sex appeal of Shakespeare.

"Today we know that the universe was not designed to suit us; we have adapted and evolved to suit the universe."

Edmund White on writing biography, Parisian dining and the sex appeal of Shakespeare.

Ask and ye shall receive

. . . free advice from Amazon.com.

Ten times the fun

Got 20 minutes? Then you've got yourself a getaway.

You Choose

Life or death, morality or chaos: According to Rabbi Lapin, it's up to America to decide.

A thousand words

Life or death, morality or chaos: According to Rabbi Lapin, it's up to America to decide.