One Decade In Brooklyn...
by Jhumpa LahiriLocal
What persists, what remains vivid, are the spaces, the rooms in which Ive worked. And in my case, with the exception of the first, my books have been made in Brooklyn.
Peacetime Soldier
by Matthew IgoeExpress
Its been 10 years since the post-9/11 wars began. Both Iraq and Afghanistan are miserable failuresover there and at home.
The Beauty of a Social Problem
by Walter Benn MichaelsArt
Unemployment is both a problem and a solution. Its a problem for the unemployed, who want work, a solution for employers who not only want workers but also want the cheapest ones they can get.
SILVIA KOLBOWSKI with Emily Apter
by Emily ApterArt
Following the recent experimental TV broadcast of Silvia Kolbowskis video project, critic and theorist Emily Apter spoke with the artist about her two works After Hiroshima Mon Amour and A Few Howls Again?
KATIA SANTIBAÑEZ with Phong Bui
by Phong BuiArt
In the midst of trying to finish several paintings and drawings to be included in her forthcoming solo exhibit, Journey of a Solitary Painter, at Morgan Lehman (October 20 December 10, 2011), the painter Katia Santibañez spoke with Rail publisher Phong Bui about her life and work.
PHYLLIDA BARLOW with John Yau
by John YauArt
Shortly after RIG, Phyllida Barlows debut installation with Hauser & Wirth (September 2 October 22, 2011) opened in London, artseen Editor John Yau and the artist talked on the phone about her exhibition.
LAWRENCE WESCHLER with Jed Lipinski
by Jed LipinskiArt
Lawrence Weschler, the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and the author of many mind-altering books, including the newly released Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, braved the elements on a monsoon-like evening to pay a visit to the Brooklyn Rail headquarters, where Rail contributor Jed Lipinski spoke with him about his life and work.
CITY NOTES: Thanks, Banks?
by Theodore HammMore than a few observers sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests have criticized the movement for a lacking a traditional organizational structure and a clear agenda. But not doing so may be precisely the gatherings most salient message.
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BROOKLYN DISPATCHES
Pain by Numbers by James Kalm - SUSAN ROTHENBERG by Thomas Micchelli
- NICOLA TYSON by Kara L. Rooney
- MIKE WOMACK Spectres, Phantoms, and Poltergeists by Shane McAdams
- LINDA CROSS: Excavation Painting by Robert C. Morgan
- MPA Directing Light onto Fist of Father by Litia Perta
- Make Way For DE KOONING by Terry R. Myers
- FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY: The Origins of Pictorial Space by Robert C. Morgan
- ANDREW MOORE Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by David St.-Lascaux
- ART = TEXT = ART curated by Elizabeth Schlatter by Joan Waltemath
- JENNIFER DALTON Cool Guys Like You by Abbe Schriber
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Letter from BERLIN
SERGEJ JENSEN Master of Color by David Rhodes - ANDREW GBUR, KELTIE FERRIS, JACKIE SACCOCCIO by Charles Schultz
- ANN PIBAL & SIAH ARMAJANI by Charles Schultz
Make Way For DE KOONING
by Terry R. MyersArtSeen
Willem de Kooning couldnt have been more clear about what he thought of retrospectives, despite his reluctant agreement to a mid-career survey in the late 1960s: They treat the artist like a sausage, tie him up at both ends, and stamp on the center Museum of Modern Art, as if youre dead and they own you.
BILLY BRAGG: Content Over Style
by KK KozikMusic
The irony is that somehow Ive built an entire career on working to change the world, states Billy Bragg. Irony? That thankless job is what Bragg is known for.
ONE IMAGE DOESNT TAKE THE PLACE OF THE PREVIOUS ONE
Harun Farockis Images of War (at a Distance) at MoMA
by Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes
Film
The centerpiece of Harun Farockis Images of War (at a Distance), on view at the Museum of Modern Art through January 2, 2012, is a four-screen installation entitled Serious Games I-IV (2009-10) that documents the use of video game technology in the imaging and imagining of war.
MAC WELLMAN Explains, Or Doesnt Explain, What Is Near And What Is Far
by Trish Harnetiaux and Matthew KorahaisTheater
Mac Wellman drinks Amstel Light because, in his words, its the best light beer. Hes less choosy about the tequilaneatthat accompanies it, demanding only that its present. When we were compiling questions to ask Wellman about his new play opening at Dixon Place in October, there was a certain fear that he would answer none of them.
For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo
by Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. HutchinsFiction
When we sat scattered around the yard, which we secured with this old iron bolt, as we did each lunar month, it was easy to miss her arrival, which she dissimulated and wished to cache in an atmosphere that she caressed affectionately with her constant motion, because she valued a beautiful surprise or the possibility of a hush-hush entrance veiled in tranquility.
Full Contents
Local
- One Decade In Brooklyn... by Jhumpa Lahiri
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REPORT CARD
On Stealing from Kids by Liza Featherstone - Long Islands Wages of Sin by Eleanor J. Bader
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MARIJUANA ARRESTS
Gateway into the Criminal Justice System by Harry Levine - Lessons of the Brooklyn Bounty by Rachel Signer
Express
- Peacetime Soldier by Matthew Igoe
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WHEN ONE IS NOT ENOUGH
An Excerpt from Secrets and Wives by Sanjiv Bhattacharya - Joe, We Hardly Knew Ya by Gabriel Thompson
- The Sharpest Beach Bums Youll Ever Meet by Ross Barkan
- The 1920s: The Good Times? by David Rosen
- Thirst For Debt by Allen Wilcox
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ARE YOU WHAT YOU WEAR?
The Politics of Fashion by David Rosen
Art
- SILVIA KOLBOWSKI with Emily Apter by Emily Apter
- KATIA SANTIBAÑEZ with Phong Bui by Phong Bui
- PHYLLIDA BARLOW with John Yau by John Yau
- LAWRENCE WESCHLER with Jed Lipinski by Jed Lipinski
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MARY CALDER ROWER
(1939 2011) by Jessica Holmes - The Beauty of a Social Problem by Walter Benn Michaels
- ALEX KATZ by Phong Bui
ArtSeen
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BROOKLYN DISPATCHES
Pain by Numbers by James Kalm - SUSAN ROTHENBERG by Thomas Micchelli
- NICOLA TYSON by Kara L. Rooney
- MIKE WOMACK Spectres, Phantoms, and Poltergeists by Shane McAdams
- LINDA CROSS: Excavation Painting by Robert C. Morgan
- MPA Directing Light onto Fist of Father by Litia Perta
- Make Way For DE KOONING by Terry R. Myers
- FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY: The Origins of Pictorial Space by Robert C. Morgan
- ANDREW MOORE Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by David St.-Lascaux
- ART = TEXT = ART curated by Elizabeth Schlatter by Joan Waltemath
- JENNIFER DALTON Cool Guys Like You by Abbe Schriber
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Letter from BERLIN
SERGEJ JENSEN Master of Color by David Rhodes - ANDREW GBUR, KELTIE FERRIS, JACKIE SACCOCCIO by Charles Schultz
- ANN PIBAL & SIAH ARMAJANI by Charles Schultz
Books
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LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
A Binary Star with Anonymous by William S. Niederkorn - BEER IS TWO SUBWAY STOPS AWAY FROM MYSTICISM: SHARON MESMER with Bart Plantenga by Sharon Mesmer
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FICTION
An Art Family by Paul Charles Griffin -
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The Thing About Harry by Andrea Scrima -
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The Dangling Publication by Meghan Roe -
FICTION
Romantic Interlude by Molly Gallentine -
ESSAYS
Wandering Through Lifes Wilderness by Winston Len -
MEMOIR
Roots Music by Tatiaana L. Laine -
RAPID TRANSIT
Image Makers in Photography and Poetry by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
FICTION
Art, War, and Captivity by Zachary Slingsby -
FICTION
Knife Music by Bruce Seymour
Music
- BILLY BRAGG: Content Over Style by KK Kozik
- Dont Mind the Maggots by Dann Baker
- In Exile on Main Street by Geoffrey Clarfield
- OUTTAKES by Steve Dalachinsky
- Being Patti Smith by Allyson Polsky McCabe
Dance
- LETTER FROM MANHATTAN: Death Takes A Holiday by Nancy Dalva
- 2 KILOS OF SEA (After Deganit Shemy) by Christine Hou
- Increasingly More Movements For L. by Patricia Milder
- US-THEM|THEM-US by Siobhan Burke
- A Review of "Traces" (in comic strip form) by Jeremy Finch
Film
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ONE IMAGE DOESNT TAKE THE PLACE OF THE PREVIOUS ONE
Harun Farockis Images of War (at a Distance) at MoMA by Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes - Eye Washes: ROBERT BREER, 19262011 by Tom McCormack
- WE ARE ALL SCABS: Some Contradictions in U.S. Independent Film Culture by Donal Foreman
Theater
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lifting the Curtain
Sound Designers: Robert Kaplowitz, Cricket S. Myers, and Matt Hubbs by Gary Winter -
JESSICA SILSBY BRATER with KARA FEELY
Or, Object Collection Meets Polybe + Seats by Jessica Silsby Brater and Kara Feely - MAC WELLMAN Explains, Or Doesnt Explain, What Is Near And What Is Far by Trish Harnetiaux and Matthew Korahais
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Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?
Canal Park Playhouses revival of Joe Rolands On the Line by Michelle Memran - The Mindscape of Septimus and Clarissa: Ripe Time Adapts Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway by Patricia Laurence
Fiction
- A Womans Pains Never End by Fatima Yousef al-Ali | Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
- For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo by Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
- Tragic Strip by T. Motley
- Some Films in Which Kitty Dawson Appears by Sarah Falkner
Poetry
- american fossil by Nico Vassilakis
- Two by Catherine Wagner
- from Palm Lines by Ben Fama
- TINA CHANG with David St.-Lascaux by David St.-Lascaux
Art Books
- Canal Zone Richard Prince Yes Rasta: Selected Court Documents, &c., &c by Andrea Neustein and Alex Neustein
- JOAN MITCHELL, Lady Painter by John Ganz
- Tantra Song by Craig Olson
- A NEW MAP OF ITALY: The Photographs of Guido Guidi by Adam Bell
- AI WEIWEIS BLOG: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009 by Justin Terry
Editor's Message
- CITY NOTES: Thanks, Banks? by Theodore Hamm



