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Will the DOE Test for PCBs?
By Eleanor J. Bader
A Note from Dore Ashton
By Dore Ashton
Brooklyn’s Comic Book Stores: A Pilgrimage
By E. Tammy Kim
Return of a Palace
By T. K. Danovich
Rebound
By M. J. Corey
The Hard Nut and a Stiff Body
By E. Tammy Kim

Express

Smithsonian: Just Put the Art Back
By Michael B. Keegan
QURRATULAIN HYDER: Voice of the South Asian Frontier
By Hirsh Sawhney
REPORT FROM INDONESIA: Frontline in the Fight Against Climate Change
By Robert S. Eshelman
MACEDONIAN MYTHMAKING: MILČO MANČEVSKI with Conor McGrady & Dario Šolman
A Holiday Letter From Santa Fe
By Jason Flores-Williams
Taibbi’s Shark Hunt
By Michael Terry
More Than a National Pastime
By Sara Versluis
In the Manor of Lord Bryson
By Allen Wilcox

Art

PETER SAUL with Irving Sandler and Phong Bui
JOE ZUCKER with Phong Bui
KENNETH FRAMPTON with Carlos Brillembourg

ArtSeen

PETER SAUL Fifty Years of Painting / SVEN LUKIN Paintings, 1960 – 1971
By John Yau
PAUL THEK Diver
By Valery Oisteanu
PAUL THEK Diver
By Maxwell Heller
JOHN LEHR Stet
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
Tumescent Follies, Inflated Money, and Kitschy Sex
By Robert C. Morgan
TRACKS: Stephanie Brody-Lederman’s Art of Whispers, Traces, and Fleeting Bons Mots
By Edward M. Gómez
TRACKS: Reuben Kadish, The Anti-Hero of American Modern Art
By Jill Conner
The Crude and the Rare
By Kara L. Rooney
STANLEY LEWIS, HANS HARTUNG, MARGRIT LEWCZUK, and PETER ACHESON
By Ben La Rocco
ANSELM KIEFER Next Year in Jerusalem
By Stephanie Buhmann
JILL NATHANSON's Quiet Vision
By Joan Waltemath
FRANCIS CAPE The Other End of the Line
By Charles Schultz
Alternative Histories
By Thomas Micchelli
PAT STEIR The Nearly Endless Line
By Sharon L. Butler
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Those Damned Weeds
By James Kalm
GEDI SIBONY
By Greg Lindquist
Marksmen and the Palimpsests
By Cora Fisher
ART BOOKS IN REVIEW: How We Talk About Chuck Close
By Benjamin Gottlieb
MARCO BREUER The Nature of the Pencil
By Shane McAdams
179 Canal/Anyways
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Letter From PORTO
By Sherman Sam
JORGE QUEIROZ
By Corina Larkin
Letter From BERLIN
By David Rhodes

Books

KILLING IN THE NAME OF: Notes From the Chicago Indie Lit Scene
By Ben Tanzer
SUSAN SHAPIRO with Nicolle Elizabeth
By Nicolle Elizabeth
A NOBLE GESTURE How and Why We Read and Write: DAVID ULIN with Audrey Gray
By Audrey Gray
Hushmoney Presents Rock Nostradamus: NICK KENT
By Dr. Shathley Q
Out From Under Don
By Mac Barrett
Unfettered
By Blake Butler
BEN MIROV'S Ghost Machine
By B.C. Edwards
Hear No, See No, Read No Evil
By Christopher Vola
To Air Is Human
By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
A World to Lose
By Ida Chung

Music

Diggin’ the Gaps: How Ahmad Jamal Re-Tooled Jazz
By Colin Fleming
Read This
By George Grella
New! Improved! Mainstream! Conservative!
By David St.-Lascaux
Environmental Studies
By Dominic Umile
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
The End of the End-of-Year List
By Katy Henriksen

Dance

Collaborative Beginnings
By Christine Hou
Garth Fagan Dance Turns Forty
By Michelle Vellucci
Existence and the Body, Three Ways
By Patricia Milder
Dancing Dulce Et Decorum Est
By David St.-Lascaux
REBECCA DAVIS’s What I’m Saying Is Born From The Weather
By Thom Donovan

Film

“I’m sorry, the screening starts when?” The 2010 New York Film Festival
By David N. Meyer
Nocturnal Epic For a Dark Era
By Lu Chen
Revolutionary Homicide
By Sarahjane Blum

Theater

Mothers Courage: Brooklyn Theater Mamas
The Everyday Art of Staying Alive: Honey Brown Eyes at The Working Theater
By Andi Stover
The Broken Lines of Tommy Smith
By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

Character and Fitness: a serial novel
By Jason Flores-Williams
Night Crime
By Emmanuel Bove, translated from the French by Alyson Waters
Shitty Micky
By Michele Witchipoo and John Reed
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Two
By David Mills
Vitale in School
By Anna Vitale
Depictions of a Screen Door, after James Castle
By Thomas Devaney

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DEC 10-JAN 11

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

Will the DOE Test for PCBs?
By Eleanor J. Bader
A Note from Dore Ashton
By Dore Ashton
Brooklyn’s Comic Book Stores: A Pilgrimage
By E. Tammy Kim
Return of a Palace
By T. K. Danovich
Rebound
By M. J. Corey
The Hard Nut and a Stiff Body
By E. Tammy Kim

Express

Smithsonian: Just Put the Art Back
By Michael B. Keegan
QURRATULAIN HYDER: Voice of the South Asian Frontier
By Hirsh Sawhney
REPORT FROM INDONESIA: Frontline in the Fight Against Climate Change
By Robert S. Eshelman
MACEDONIAN MYTHMAKING: MILČO MANČEVSKI with Conor McGrady & Dario Šolman
A Holiday Letter From Santa Fe
By Jason Flores-Williams
Taibbi’s Shark Hunt
By Michael Terry
More Than a National Pastime
By Sara Versluis
In the Manor of Lord Bryson
By Allen Wilcox

Art

PETER SAUL with Irving Sandler and Phong Bui
JOE ZUCKER with Phong Bui
KENNETH FRAMPTON with Carlos Brillembourg

ArtSeen

PETER SAUL Fifty Years of Painting / SVEN LUKIN Paintings, 1960 – 1971
By John Yau
PAUL THEK Diver
By Valery Oisteanu
PAUL THEK Diver
By Maxwell Heller
JOHN LEHR Stet
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
Tumescent Follies, Inflated Money, and Kitschy Sex
By Robert C. Morgan
TRACKS: Stephanie Brody-Lederman’s Art of Whispers, Traces, and Fleeting Bons Mots
By Edward M. Gómez
TRACKS: Reuben Kadish, The Anti-Hero of American Modern Art
By Jill Conner
The Crude and the Rare
By Kara L. Rooney
STANLEY LEWIS, HANS HARTUNG, MARGRIT LEWCZUK, and PETER ACHESON
By Ben La Rocco
ANSELM KIEFER Next Year in Jerusalem
By Stephanie Buhmann
JILL NATHANSON's Quiet Vision
By Joan Waltemath
FRANCIS CAPE The Other End of the Line
By Charles Schultz
Alternative Histories
By Thomas Micchelli
PAT STEIR The Nearly Endless Line
By Sharon L. Butler
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Those Damned Weeds
By James Kalm
GEDI SIBONY
By Greg Lindquist
Marksmen and the Palimpsests
By Cora Fisher
ART BOOKS IN REVIEW: How We Talk About Chuck Close
By Benjamin Gottlieb
MARCO BREUER The Nature of the Pencil
By Shane McAdams
179 Canal/Anyways
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Letter From PORTO
By Sherman Sam
JORGE QUEIROZ
By Corina Larkin
Letter From BERLIN
By David Rhodes

Books

KILLING IN THE NAME OF: Notes From the Chicago Indie Lit Scene
By Ben Tanzer
SUSAN SHAPIRO with Nicolle Elizabeth
By Nicolle Elizabeth
A NOBLE GESTURE How and Why We Read and Write: DAVID ULIN with Audrey Gray
By Audrey Gray
Hushmoney Presents Rock Nostradamus: NICK KENT
By Dr. Shathley Q
Out From Under Don
By Mac Barrett
Unfettered
By Blake Butler
BEN MIROV'S Ghost Machine
By B.C. Edwards
Hear No, See No, Read No Evil
By Christopher Vola
To Air Is Human
By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
A World to Lose
By Ida Chung

Music

Diggin’ the Gaps: How Ahmad Jamal Re-Tooled Jazz
By Colin Fleming
Read This
By George Grella
New! Improved! Mainstream! Conservative!
By David St.-Lascaux
Environmental Studies
By Dominic Umile
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
The End of the End-of-Year List
By Katy Henriksen

Dance

Collaborative Beginnings
By Christine Hou
Garth Fagan Dance Turns Forty
By Michelle Vellucci
Existence and the Body, Three Ways
By Patricia Milder
Dancing Dulce Et Decorum Est
By David St.-Lascaux
REBECCA DAVIS’s What I’m Saying Is Born From The Weather
By Thom Donovan

Film

“I’m sorry, the screening starts when?” The 2010 New York Film Festival
By David N. Meyer
Nocturnal Epic For a Dark Era
By Lu Chen
Revolutionary Homicide
By Sarahjane Blum

Theater

Mothers Courage: Brooklyn Theater Mamas
The Everyday Art of Staying Alive: Honey Brown Eyes at The Working Theater
By Andi Stover
The Broken Lines of Tommy Smith
By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

Character and Fitness: a serial novel
By Jason Flores-Williams
Night Crime
By Emmanuel Bove, translated from the French by Alyson Waters
Shitty Micky
By Michele Witchipoo and John Reed
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Two
By David Mills
Vitale in School
By Anna Vitale
Depictions of a Screen Door, after James Castle
By Thomas Devaney

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