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Soldiers Bring the War Back Home
by Aimee MolloyLocal
When there’s a war going on around you, there’s not a lot of time to think.
New New Holland?
by Peter Lamborn WilsonExpress
People seem to be thinking: “Secession… hmm…What a good idea!”
Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin
by Daniel BairdArt
I remember wandering into a small, shabby old church on the outskirts of Mexico City, and encountering a crude, worm-eaten wooden statue of Jesus. Perilously at its base was a mountain of molten, smoldering candles, guttering wicks sticking up from the lumpy mound of white wax, the rivulets streaming down, looking remarkably like tears.
Noah Sheldon
by Roger WhiteArtSeen
“Plywood Fountain,” an artwork with a perfectly descriptive title, occupies one room of Almost Vegetarian, Noah Sheldon’s first solo show at Southfirst Gallery in Williamsburg. “Plywood Fountain” is an unadorned four-by-four-foot polyurethaned birch box fitted with an electric pump emitting a jet of water, which takes on an iridescent sheen from three colored lights submerged in its basin.
The East(ern) and the Western
by David N. MeyerFilm
Years ago author V.S Naipaul was sitting roadside at some desolate pass on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border and this tribal kid crested the trail.
- John Szarkowski by Farrah Karapetian
- Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) by Valery Oisteanu
- Abby Leigh by Daniel Baird
- Larry Webb and Bob Witz by Ben LaRocco
- Leon Polk Smith by Stephanie Buhmann
- Noah Sheldon by Roger White
- Pat Passlof by Ben LaRocco
- Jin Soo Kim by Robert C. Morgan
- John Walker by James Kalm
- Jonathan Schipper and Simon Lee by William Powhida
- Tim Hawkinson by William Powhida
- Nin Brudermann by Thomas Micchelli
- On the Subject of War by Nick Stillman
in dialogue: bad, clown, bad
by Jason Grote and Sheila CallaghanTheater
Playwrights Sheila Callaghan and Jason Grote recently saw the Undermain Theater’s production of Jeffrey M. Jones’s play A Man’s Best Friend, and they discussed the play in Sheila’s Brooklyn kitchen.
Conversion in Connecticut
by Martha KingFiction
It was only eleven in the morning, and it was a school day, but there were groups of high school kids at the bay beach. With cans of beer, with tape decks and car radios turned up loud; with pimples on their mouths, and expensive cars, and the drifting intermittent scent of reefer.
Robert Frank Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
by Brenda CoutlasPoetry
I’ve never seen a bag of trash, not even on Friday, which is big trash night, in front of his house. Where does he leave it?
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Local
- Soldiers Bring the War Back Home by Aimee Molloy
- UNITY Loves Company by Brian J. Carreira
- Pete Hamill with Ted Hamm by Theodore Hamm
- Dawn of a New "Neighborhood"? by Williams Cole
- Arthur Miller's Brooklyn Legacy by Theodore Hamm
Express
- New New Holland? by Peter Lamborn Wilson
- Secession: A Five-Point Program by Jason Flores-Williams
- Notes from September 11 by Christopher Ketcham
- Journalists at Work by Christian Parenti
- Learning from Buster by Shelley Pasnik
- Letter from Ecuador by Caitlin Dunklee
Art
- Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin by Daniel Baird
- Railing Opinion by Thomas Micchelli
- Reflections on the Last Sunspot Drawing at Mt. Wilson Observatory by Jim Long
- Ellen Gallagher by * Praxis
- In Search of the Miraculous by Raphael Rubinstein
- In memory of Steve Parrino
ArtSeen
- John Szarkowski by Farrah Karapetian
- Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) by Valery Oisteanu
- Abby Leigh by Daniel Baird
- Larry Webb and Bob Witz by Ben LaRocco
- Leon Polk Smith by Stephanie Buhmann
- Noah Sheldon by Roger White
- Pat Passlof by Ben LaRocco
- Jin Soo Kim by Robert C. Morgan
- John Walker by James Kalm
- Jonathan Schipper and Simon Lee by William Powhida
- Tim Hawkinson by William Powhida
- Nin Brudermann by Thomas Micchelli
- On the Subject of War by Nick Stillman
Books
- Off the Shelves by Book Staff
- New Day at Hunter: Peter Carey by James McCloskey
- City of Women: Elizabeth Gaffney by Eleanor Bader
- excerpted from The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue
Music
- review: Meadow House’s Tongue Under a Ton of Nine-Volters by Dave Mandl
- Bow Becomes Breath by Ellen Pearlman
- Honest Is the Best Policy by Grant Moser
Dance
- Back to the Future by Nicole Pope
- Dancing on the Rail by Vanessa Manko
- From the Bathhouse to the Bedroom by Claudia La Rocco
- Young Choreographers: A New Generation by Jen Weiss
Film
- The East(ern) and the Western by David N. Meyer
- docs in sight: Making a Piece of Political History Last by Williams Cole
- The Same Kind of Dick by Williams Cole
Theater
- in dialogue: bad, clown, bad by Jason Grote and Sheila Callaghan
- Ubu Goes Patamusical by David Kilpatrick
- Candide returns to NYC: The Best of All Possible Worlds? by Emily DeVoti
Fiction
- Conversion in Connecticut by Martha King
- Wanna hear my story? by Martha King
- Six Fables… by Martha King
Poetry
- Robert Frank Doesn’t Live Here Anymore by Brenda Coutlas
- Yeah, Canvas by Alex Young
- Poems for Jackson Mac Low: Staying by Anne Waldman
- An Imperfect Mesostic for Jackson Mac Low by Alison Knowles


