Against the Giuliani Legacy
by Williams ColeLocal
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it not to expressions of its own morality, but to those of another.
Sunset Park: The Next Times Square?
by Patrick GallahueLocal
All is quiet on 2nd Avenue in Sunset Park except for the sounds of drifting traffic. Barely a sign of humanity exists amidst the industrial sprawl, and the rare pedestrian is quick-footed in passing.
Opinions: On Gay Marriage
by Jason JonesExpress
For the past two years I have been in love with a terrific guy named John. Im pretty much the social butterfly, while John prefers quiet dinner parties or an evening of movies and take-out. Occasionally we go out together and invariably meet new people.
Leon Golub in Conversation with the Painter Chris Martin
by Chris MartinArt
Its all over the place, struggles for survival, struggles for dominance. Its a power game, not just evil itself, its about control, irrationality, anxiety, and so on. In a hierarchy, or some form of governing body, its about how to maintain control over their far-flung interests, the prevailing power and who would have the most at stake in whats going on.
One Mans Universe
by Miriam GreenbergBooks
If there is one line that captures the spirit of The Talking Cure, WBAI radio personality Mike Feders new autobiography, this is the one. Here is encapsulated the authors unique combination of plodding depression, mordant humor, and degree of self-obsession verging on the absurd. Spring came at last (sigh!), no thanks to me (ha ha!).
The Meaning of Express
by Theodore HammThis issue launches the Rails new editorial section. Longtime readers may of course say, but I thought the entire Rail was an extended set of opinion pages.
- Richmond Burton by Rachel Youens
- Ryan McGinness by Peter Eleey
- Jacqueline Humphries by Lori Ortiz
- Deep Surface: reading a New Language in the Kinetic Passages of Jay Milder by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
- Chariots of the Gauze: Nader Ebrahimi by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
- Kazumi Tanaka by Peter Eleey
- Joan Snyder by Rachel Youens
- Pitt.stop by Lori Ortiz
- Suzan Batu by Lori Ortiz
- Elizabeth Cohen and Michael Talley by Art Aské
- Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor by Cecily Kahn
Hail, Baryshnikov: White Oakss Judson Dances at BAM
by Ellen PearlmanDance
Only the force and persistence of the greatest living dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov could have gathered the resources necessary for restaging a retrospective of the seminal Judson Dances.
Lionel Abel Remembered
by Phong BuiTheater
Years ago, while reading Irving Howes autobiography, The Margin of Hope, I came across a humorous but insightful observation made by Lionel Abel about New York during the 1930s: It became the most interesting part of the Soviet Union that one part of the country in which the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky could be openly expressed.
Umbrian Odes
by David RigsbeePoetry
Stacked stone holds its cutout against the blue. Old window arches are bricked, having been first covered with concrete and that slagged off. Swallows loop from cracks to air and back, and pigeons perched like gargoyles gently into sleepy, perishable sentries.
Full Contents
Local
- Want to Save PBS? Make it Pay-Per-View by Ray Nedzel
- Revelations in May by Jim Knable
- Lentil Soup: Van Goghs Table by Cathy Nan Quinlan
- Sunset Park: The Next Times Square? by Patrick Gallahue
- The Battle for Borough Hall by Jonas Salganik
- Siberia Bar: Exiled in Times Square by Justin Vogt
- Power Politics: The Protests Continue by Bridget Terry
- Jacking the Hudson River: Welchs Last Stand by Russell Cobb
- Against the Giuliani Legacy by Williams Cole
Express
- Hot Fun in the Brooklyn Summer by Meghan McDermott
- Opinion: End Toxic Discrimination
- The Environment: Another Weapon of War? by Phil Berrigan
- Indonesia: Business as Usual by Gregg Salisbury
- Quebec City Diary: Struggling Against a Global Takeover by Carlos Vásquez and Pennelope Lewis
- Opinions: On Gay Marriage by Jason Jones
- Letter: Look Out Kid, Its Something You Did
- Archie Bunker, R.I.P.
Art
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Brute Realism: Leon Golub at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
May 13 August 24, 2001 by Daniel Baird - Leon Golub in Conversation with the Painter Chris Martin by Chris Martin
- The Margins of William Blake by Phong Bui
- Travelling at the Speed of Night: 65 mph by Valerie Jaffe
ArtSeen
- Richmond Burton by Rachel Youens
- Ryan McGinness by Peter Eleey
- Jacqueline Humphries by Lori Ortiz
- Deep Surface: reading a New Language in the Kinetic Passages of Jay Milder by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
- Chariots of the Gauze: Nader Ebrahimi by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
- Kazumi Tanaka by Peter Eleey
- Joan Snyder by Rachel Youens
- Pitt.stop by Lori Ortiz
- Suzan Batu by Lori Ortiz
- Elizabeth Cohen and Michael Talley by Art Aské
- Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor by Cecily Kahn
Books
- Where Did You Go, Joe DiMaggio? by Patrick Walsh
- Diane di Primas New York by Ellen Pearlman
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Loving Daughter by Patrick Walsh
- Documenting Revolution: Emile de Antonio by Tamara L. Falicov
- One Mans Universe by Miriam Greenberg
- Summer Fiction by Sophie Fels
- A Pacifist in the Trenches by Theodore Hamm
- The Brooklyn Rail recommends
Music
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Love Camp 7
Vacation Village by David Shirley
Dance
- Hail, Baryshnikov: White Oakss Judson Dances at BAM by Ellen Pearlman
- SWARM at WAX: KICK/STANDance by John Merchant
Film
- A lesson for the Masses: Ken Loachs Bread and Roses by Emily DeVoti
Theater
- Lionel Abel Remembered by Phong Bui
- Dante in Dumbo: GAle GAtes et al. Tales it Down and Down and Down by Alan Lockwood
- Nothing is True: Lipstick Traces and The 20th Century by Beth Rosemberg
Fiction
- Another Housing Story by Scot Crawford
- Excerpt from Gowanus Notecard Abduction by Tod Thilleman
Poetry
- Umbrian Odes by David Rigsbee
- Skai's Marriage by Snorri Sturluson
- Poetic Lives I: Harvey Shapiro, in conversation with Galen Williams by Galen Williams
- Poetic Lives II: In the Homeless Shelter by Thomas Obrzut
- Poetic lives III: NYCs Youth Poetry Scene by Jen Weiss
Editor's Message
- The Meaning of Express by Theodore Hamm



