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Local

Atlantic Yards Fallout
– By Brian J. Carreira
The Bloomberg Mystique
– By Richard Wells
Flea Market 2.0
– By Nicole Robson
Food Not Bombs
– By Shell Fischer
Debra Sweet, the Woman Behind World Can’t Wait
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Seeking Imperfection
– By Hailey Eber

Express

Campaign Notebook: Obama at Philadelphia
– By Theodore Hamm
Dispatches from the Tibetan Front: Dharamsala, India
– By Litia Perta
Dispatches from the Tibetan Front: On the March
– By Lex Pelger
The Church and Its Sins: Constantine’s Sword
– By Williams Cole
As Vets Testify — Democrats and Big Media are Nowhere to be Found
– By Matthew Hennessy
Born in Africa: Farai Wonderful Bere
– By Nadia Davids
Wasteland Dreaming
– By Christian Parenti
Man of the Village, Man of the World: Vincent Livelli and His Enduring Adventures
– By Alan Lockwood
Just Another American Dreamer
– By Vincent Rossmeier
Seizing the Means of Production
– By Michael Busch
Hobsbawm’s Empire
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder
Amis and Islam
– By James Arnett
Don’t Hate the Nader, Hate the Game
– By Charly Wilder
The Most Everything in the World
– By Elizabeth Crane

Art

ArtSeen

Matt Connors Enjambment
– By Josh Morgenthau
Enantiomorphic Chamber
– By Cassandra Neyenesch
Tadaaki Kuwayama’s Aesthetics of Infinity
– By Robert C. Morgan
Marcel Dzama Even the Ghost of the Past
– By Shane McAdams
Dan Walsh
– By Cassandra Neyenesch
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini: Works from 1960 to 1990
– By Valery Oisteanu
Lori Ellison
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
Joseph DeLappe Gandhi’s March to Dandi
– By Warren Fry
Dave Miko
– By Craig Olson
Ruth Root
– By Nora Griffin
Hungover at Whitney
– By David Markus
America’s Lessness
– By Sharon L. Butler
Kalm Before the Storm, Responses to “The Ethics of Aesthetics”
– By James Kalm
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm
Flip: Rachel Beach and Nora Herting
– By Hrag Vartanian
Catherine Sullivan Triangle of Need
– By Thomas Micchelli
Lydia Dona FROM HEAT TO SUB-ZERO
– By John Yau
Jasper Johns
– By John Yau
June Leaf Paintings & Sculpture
– By John Yau
Floor Plans
– By Claudia La Rocco

Books

Remembering Jonathan Williams (March 8, 1929–March 16, 2008)
– By Robert Kelly
Jeanette Winterson with TK Wetter
Nonfiction: Youthful Anarchy
– By Jim Feast
Fiction: The Trojan War Will Take Place
– By Eugene Lim
Nonfiction: Two Sides of a Showdown
– By Ken Murray
Fiction: To Come Back Rich, or Die There
– By David Varno
Nonfiction: Weird America
– By Thomas Rogers
Poetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Prose Roundup
– By Michael Lindgren, Lu Chen, and Ben Mirov
David Shankbone with Colleen Asper

Music

Noise-Pop, Rachael Ray, and the Magic Box: SXSW 2008
– By John S.W. MacDonald
The Purest One: Iva Bittová with the Bang on a Can All-Stars,
– By Sharon Mesmer
The Monday Night Band: Recording Live at the Village Vanguard
– By Michelle Chen
Passionless Play
– By Matthew Ozga
The Kids Are Badass
– By Paula Crossfield
Alain Neffe’s Potlatch Music
– By Tony Coulter
A Bridge That Will Bring Us Together (Again)
– By David Varno
Brought to You by the Letter G
– By Grant Moser

Dance

Diana Vishneva at City Center: A Review
– By Margaret Fuhrer
Ballet as a Reality Show
– By Margaret Fuhrer
Georgian Ballet's Sweet Renaissance
– By April Greene

Film

Alex Cox with David Wilentz
Crying Over Broken Eggs
– By Jesi Khadivi
…If two of them are dead
– By Sarahjane Blum
Big, Fat, Piece O' Pie
– By Makenna Goodman
Love You to Death
– By Tessa DeCarlo
In One Word: Emotion
– By Jesi Khadivi
Two Lane Blacktop
– By David Wilentz
The Draughtsman's Contract
– By Rachel Balik
Thanatos and Eros Sitting Around Talking
– By Melina Neet
Grasping at the C-list
– By Mary Hanlon
The Return of Prodigal Son: Jonas Mekas Center for the Visual Arts
– By Robert A. Haller

Theater

Woman Center Stage: Chiori Miyagawa
– By Lenora Champagne
Sex, Lies, and Videotape à la Aguirre-Sacasa
– By Kathryn Walat
Nothing But Novel: Elevator Repair Service Does Faulkner
– By Claire Epstein
From Outrage to Stage: George Packer's Betrayed
– By Justin Boyd
Lush Life: Adam Bock's The Drunken City & Excerpt
– By Adam Bock

Fiction

Genomica
– By Susan Daitch
Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows
– By Leslie Scalapino
Triptych
– By Mojie Crigler
Dionysus the Liberator
– By Andrea Lawlor
Triptych
– By Mojie Crigler
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley

Poetry

Three Poems
– By Hoa Nguyen
Le Cupcake; Castaway
– By Dana Ward
Untitled Soap Bubble
– By Rod Smith

LastWords

Paying for War
– By Jed Lipinski

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