Lower Manhattan: Let the Public Decide
by Neil BrennerLocal
In the days after the catastrophic attack on the World Trade Center, many spontaneous moving memorials to victims appeared throughout the city, in places like Union Square, the Brooklyn Promenade and various triage information centers for victims families.
Against the Giuliani Legacy
by Williams ColeLocal
The three previous installments of this series critically explored the new New York of the Giuliani administration via redefinition of quality of life and the war on crime, decency and the free market, and, most recently, welfare-to-work and the war on the citys poor.
The Battle of Seattle and Beyond
by Theodore HammExpress
Commager, an historian, launched his criticisms at the outset of the Cold War, a period during which freedoms of speech or association would be anything but sacrosanct. Such repression was justified, said HUAC, Truman and soon McCarthy, on the grounds that there existed a rival national power hell-bent on global domination. Freedom, the redbaiters maintained, was a relative, not an absolute condition.
Interviews With Alison Knowles, July-October 2001, New York City
by Ellen PearlmanArt
Knowles: Ellen, it was great you came to the performance last night (At the Drawing Center). Tell me what you thought of it?
E.H. Gombrich Remembered (1909-2001)
by Phong BuiArt
For many of us, E.H. Gombrich was known as an author of the widely popular The Story of Art, which sold millions of copies and was translated into more than twenty languages.
A War That We Can Win
by Theodore HammThis past summer, all of us involved in The Rail agreed that in order to gain a toehold, and eventually a foothold, in the publishing world, we would need to make each of our issues flawless in terms of production.
- James Siena, Gorney Bravin + Lee by Chris Martin
- The Art World Responds to 9/11 by Sophie Fels
- Catherine Murphy, Lennon, Weinberg by Peter Eleey
- Friends & Mentors The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center by Tommasio Longhi
- Joe Brainard: A Retrospective PS1 Contemporary Art Center by Jennifer Coates
- Joe Brainard at Tibor de Nagy and PS1 by Rachel Youens
- Reflections on Alfred Jensen by Chris Martin
- Opened Ground: Kathleen Moroney by Suzanne De Vegh
- Bruegel The Elder: Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum by Phong Bui
- Any Where Out of The World at Parkers Box by Rachel Gordon
- Joe Fig, Plus Ultra Gallery/PS1-MoMA by Peter Eleey
Writing the Left Coast: Peter Plate, in conversation with Christian Parenti
by Christian ParentiBooks
San Francisco Police Captain Greg Suhr once claimed that his forces had to rewrite local surveillance laws just so they could keep tabs on the squatter, thief and novelist Peter Plate. The story may or may not be true, but the po-po certainly hate this scrappy, street fightn, rationally paranoid, writer.
Independents Dance
by Alan LockwoodDance
Erico Villanuevas expanded dance piece Ikukos Alter Ego had its late September, attack-delayed opening in the grim scene of downtown recovery that has redefined our times.
A Sunday in Oberheim
by Drago JancarFiction
Not even a Sunday, just a Sunday morning. Three scenes, a thousand words. And the necessary backdrop of the melancholy Central European provinces. The square by the Danube: the river has risen a bit in the last few days, and the long-hulled boats, either on their own or with the aid of tugboats, struggle against the current but they slide quickly and almost soundlessly in the other direction as the brown water foams.
Full Contents
Local
- Jihad In Brooklyn: Just What We Do Every Day by Emily Votruba
- Power to the Poets by Knox Robinson
- Another Really Outstanding Article by Ray Nedzel
- Against the Giuliani Legacy by Williams Cole
- Lower Manhattan: Let the Public Decide by Neil Brenner
- Pie in the Sky or in the Oven Baking?: The 2012 Olympics in Williamsburg by Phoebe Nobles
- Autumn in New York by Grant Moser
- Hell in a Hand Basket: An Election Postscript by Jonas Salganik
- Bay Ridges Boiling Pot? A Neighborhood Responds to September 11th by Mo-Yain Tham
Express
- And Balanced With This Life, This Death (Genoa, the G8 and the battle in the streets) by Ramor Ryan
- You Evil Victim! by Hector Toledano
- WTC: The Construction and Destruction of a Building as Global Brand by Miriam Greenberg
- The Ever-Broadening War by The Z.O.O.
- The Battle of Seattle and Beyond by Theodore Hamm
- Be All That You Can Click ON!: Military Propaganda in the Information Age by Randolph Lewis
- Something is About to Happen by Nick Pappas
- Opinion: A Power Plant by Any Other Name by Mark Regan
- Operation Enduring Suffering: Meditations on Justice by Rachel Neumann
- Editorials
- Daggers, Airplanes, and the Lure of a Certain Garden by Justin McGuirk
Art
- Interviews With Alison Knowles, July-October 2001, New York City by Ellen Pearlman
- Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works, Including Collaborations with George Bures Miller P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center October 14, 2001-January 31, 2002 by Daniel Baird
- Tom Friedman at the New Museum of Contemporary Art by Daniel Baird
- E.H. Gombrich Remembered (1909-2001) by Phong Bui
ArtSeen
- James Siena, Gorney Bravin + Lee by Chris Martin
- The Art World Responds to 9/11 by Sophie Fels
- Catherine Murphy, Lennon, Weinberg by Peter Eleey
- Friends & Mentors The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center by Tommasio Longhi
- Joe Brainard: A Retrospective PS1 Contemporary Art Center by Jennifer Coates
- Joe Brainard at Tibor de Nagy and PS1 by Rachel Youens
- Reflections on Alfred Jensen by Chris Martin
- Opened Ground: Kathleen Moroney by Suzanne De Vegh
- Bruegel The Elder: Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum by Phong Bui
- Any Where Out of The World at Parkers Box by Rachel Gordon
- Joe Fig, Plus Ultra Gallery/PS1-MoMA by Peter Eleey
Books
- New Works by Rail Contributors by Maurice Isserman, D. B., and Norman Finkelstein
- Writing the Left Coast: Peter Plate, in conversation with Christian Parenti by Christian Parenti
Music
- Letter from Buenos Aires, Part II by Alan Lockwood
Dance
- Independents Dance by Alan Lockwood
Theater
- IN DIALOGUE: Imaging Political Theater by Emily DeVoti
Fiction
- A Sunday in Oberheim by Drago Jancar
- From Robert Pingets Journals by Robert Pinget
- Form 3575 by Evan Harris
- Visitations by Scot Crawford
Poetry
- After Seven Days at a Hotel with T by Phan Nhien Hao
- The Monk and the Child by Anzhelina Polonskaya
- Dust Balls (Pablo Did It Much Better) by Kenneth Dolin
Editor's Message
- A War That We Can Win by Theodore Hamm



