OCT 2011

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One Decade In Brooklyn...
By Jhumpa Lahiri
REPORT CARD On Stealing from Kids
By Liza Featherstone
Long Island’s Wages of Sin
By Eleanor J. Bader
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
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 You’ll Ever Meet
By Ross Barkan
The 1920s: The Good Times?
By David Rosen
Thirst For Debt
By Allen Wilcox
ARE YOU WHAT YOU WEAR? The Politics of Fashion
By David Rosen

Art

SILVIA KOLBOWSKI with Emily Apter
KATIA SANTIBAÑEZ with Phong Bui
PHYLLIDA BARLOW with John Yau
LAWRENCE WESCHLER with Jed Lipinski
MARY CALDER ROWER (1939 – 2011)
By Jessica Holmes
The Beauty of a Social Problem
By Walter Benn Michaels
ALEX KATZ
By Phong Bui

ArtSeen

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
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

LITERARY BIOGRAPHY A Binary Star with Anonymous
By William S. Niederkorn
BEER IS TWO SUBWAY STOPS AWAY FROM MYSTICISM: SHARON MESMER with Bart Plantenga
FICTION An Art Family
By Paul Charles Griffin
FICTION The Thing About Harry
By Andrea Scrima
FICTION The Dangling Publication
By Meghan Roe
FICTION Romantic Interlude
By Molly Gallentine
ESSAYS Wandering Through Life’s 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
Don’t 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

ONE IMAGE DOESN’T TAKE THE PLACE OF THE PREVIOUS ONE Harun Farocki’s Images of War (at a Distance) at MoMA
By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes
Eye Washes: ROBERT BREER, 1926–2011
By Tom McCormack
“WE ARE ALL SCABS”: Some Contradictions in U.S. Independent Film Culture
By Donal Foreman

Theater

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
MAC WELLMAN Explains, Or Doesn’t Explain, What Is Near And What Is Far
By Trish Harnetiaux and Matthew Korahais
“Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?” Canal Park Playhouse’s revival of Joe Roland’s 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 Woman’s 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

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 WEIWEI’S BLOG: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
By Justin Terry

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OCT 2011

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

One Decade In Brooklyn...
By Jhumpa Lahiri
REPORT CARD On Stealing from Kids
By Liza Featherstone
Long Island’s Wages of Sin
By Eleanor J. Bader
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
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 You’ll Ever Meet
By Ross Barkan
The 1920s: The Good Times?
By David Rosen
Thirst For Debt
By Allen Wilcox
ARE YOU WHAT YOU WEAR? The Politics of Fashion
By David Rosen

Art

SILVIA KOLBOWSKI with Emily Apter
KATIA SANTIBAÑEZ with Phong Bui
PHYLLIDA BARLOW with John Yau
LAWRENCE WESCHLER with Jed Lipinski
MARY CALDER ROWER (1939 – 2011)
By Jessica Holmes
The Beauty of a Social Problem
By Walter Benn Michaels
ALEX KATZ
By Phong Bui

ArtSeen

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
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

LITERARY BIOGRAPHY A Binary Star with Anonymous
By William S. Niederkorn
BEER IS TWO SUBWAY STOPS AWAY FROM MYSTICISM: SHARON MESMER with Bart Plantenga
FICTION An Art Family
By Paul Charles Griffin
FICTION The Thing About Harry
By Andrea Scrima
FICTION The Dangling Publication
By Meghan Roe
FICTION Romantic Interlude
By Molly Gallentine
ESSAYS Wandering Through Life’s 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
Don’t 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

ONE IMAGE DOESN’T TAKE THE PLACE OF THE PREVIOUS ONE Harun Farocki’s Images of War (at a Distance) at MoMA
By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes
Eye Washes: ROBERT BREER, 1926–2011
By Tom McCormack
“WE ARE ALL SCABS”: Some Contradictions in U.S. Independent Film Culture
By Donal Foreman

Theater

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
MAC WELLMAN Explains, Or Doesn’t Explain, What Is Near And What Is Far
By Trish Harnetiaux and Matthew Korahais
“Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?” Canal Park Playhouse’s revival of Joe Roland’s 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 Woman’s 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

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 WEIWEI’S BLOG: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
By Justin Terry

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