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In the Archives of Interference
By Eleanor J. Bader
The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual
CITYNOTES Party No More
By Theodore Hamm
A Relic Reborn
By John D'Antonio and Michael Randazzo

Express

THE FRIDAY OF RAGE: The March to Tahrir Square
By Nagat Ali, Translated from the Arabic by Gretchen McCullough
A Literary Life, Perused
By Corey Eastwood
AN AUSTRALIAN WRITER IN BROOKLYN ANNA FUNDER with Bec Zajac
AMONG THE THUGS TABISH KHAIR with Seb Doubinsky
Of Many Minds
By Kathy Smundak
Everything Under the Sun
By Liam Buell
Portrait of the Artist
By Christopher Michel
Once Upon a Lifetime…
By Geoffrey Young

Art

LOUISE FISHMAN with Sharon Butler
S-Stutterer
By Bill Beckley
ABCs for/of RICHARD TUTTLE An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 1 “A-G”
In Conversation with PETER LAMBORN WILSON
Gardens Beyond Eden: Bio-aesthetics, Eco-Futurism, and Dystopia at dOCUMENTA (13)
By T.J. Demos
A Profile of SHIRIN NESHAT
By Michele Gerber Klein

ArtSeen

Twelve Works
By Tsibi Geva
Just Call Me Al
By Benjamin Hollander
A Studio Visit in Four Parts
By Ammiel Alcalay
ELLEN GRONEMEYER Affentheater
By Charles Schultz
LUISA RABBIA Coming and Going
By Stephanie Buhmann
Anecdotal Response to a Kossoff Motif
By Joseph Masheck
QUAY BROTHERS On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Shaping the Structure of Painting CHARLES HINMAN
By Robert C. Morgan
THOMAS MICCHELLI Portfolio x Appunti
By James Kalm
LOUISE FISHMAN
By Jonathan Goodman
RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER Voice Array
By Chloé Rossetti
Lecture for Chicago
By Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Rebecca Norton
Three Poems
By Miguel Hernández, translated by Don Share
His Artificial Lover Sings a Wordless Song
By Michael Palmer
Andrew MacNair, First Egg Chapel
By Andrew MacNair
BERNADETTE CORPORATION 2000 Wasted Years
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
FRANK MOORE Toxic Beauty
By Valery Oisteanu
CAROL RAMA Spazio anche più che tempo
By David Rhodes
TOBA KHEDOORI
By William Corwin
On the Ghost of a Boy Returning to Newark (For children of mixed backgrounds everywhere.)
By Alex Duensing
Two Poems
By Joanna Fuhrman
Earthly Delights
By Joseph Lease
Removing Barriers Mobilizes Resources
By David Gersten
Herbie Vogel
By Lucio Pozzi

Books

At the End the Baby Disappears
By Laura Jean Moore
The Multifarious Am
By Dean Kostos
Life-Size
By Luis Jaramillo
Kafka’s Closest Twin Brother
By Andrea Scrima
JOHN SUMMERS and CHRIS LEHMANN with John Cotter
Rapid Transit
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
THE EDITORS OF ELECTRIC LITERATURE with Aspen Matis and Justin Matis
The Art of Nietzsche
By Joseph Nechvatal
Tangled Up in Rue
By Jim Feast
MATTHEW VOLLMER with Weston Cutter
MAUREEN McLANE with Adam Fitzgerald

Music

Brooklyn is Burning
By George Grella
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
What if the D.J. were the NGO?
By Emily Gogolak
Network Potential
By Andrew Cappetta
“HAND ME A FLAG…” Maynard and the Musties
By Tsaurah Litzky

Dance

DOUGLAS DUNN in conversation with Nancy Dalva
Modern Antiquity
By Ryan Wenzel
Inner Child
By Garnet Henderson

Film

ARCADIAN RHYTHMS: On Ben Rivers’s Two Years at Sea
By Rachael Rakes
CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE Leos Carax’s Holy Motors
By Leo Goldsmith
“WINNING A (HI)STORY OUT OF PLACES” Christian Petzold’s Barbara
By Christina Gerhardt
STILL LIFE David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
By Paul Felten

Theater

THERE WILL BE BLOOD The Debate Society Takes Bushwick
By Amy Rose Marsh
In A Small Room With An Unpredictable Person: Filling Up on The Pumpkin Pie Show with Mac Rogers
By Mac Rogers
Trimming the Fat Samuel D. Hunter with Tommy Smith
By Tommy Smith

Fiction

2 Stories
By Lewis Warsh
When did I type this
By Blake Butler
The Third House
By J. A. Tyler
Homeless
By Leah Hayes
For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo
By Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
One Year For a Dog Equals Seven Years For a Person
By Sergi Pàmies | Translated from the Catalan by Julie Wark
Arrow Schmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
New England
By Matthew Thurber
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Bliss
By Suzanne Scanlon

Poetry

Four
By Ann Lauterbach
from When Jazz was the Capital of Alaska
By Chris Pusateri
Notes on the Construction of Ghost Costumes
By Ken L. Walker

Art Books

PAINTER’S JOURNAL
By John Ganz
DENISE GREEN: AN ARTIST’S ODYSSEY
By Juliet Helmke
SILENCE
By Ricky D'Ambrose

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OCT 2012

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

In the Archives of Interference
By Eleanor J. Bader
The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual
CITYNOTES Party No More
By Theodore Hamm
A Relic Reborn
By John D'Antonio and Michael Randazzo

Express

THE FRIDAY OF RAGE: The March to Tahrir Square
By Nagat Ali, Translated from the Arabic by Gretchen McCullough
A Literary Life, Perused
By Corey Eastwood
AN AUSTRALIAN WRITER IN BROOKLYN ANNA FUNDER with Bec Zajac
AMONG THE THUGS TABISH KHAIR with Seb Doubinsky
Of Many Minds
By Kathy Smundak
Everything Under the Sun
By Liam Buell
Portrait of the Artist
By Christopher Michel
Once Upon a Lifetime…
By Geoffrey Young

Art

LOUISE FISHMAN with Sharon Butler
S-Stutterer
By Bill Beckley
ABCs for/of RICHARD TUTTLE An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 1 “A-G”
In Conversation with PETER LAMBORN WILSON
Gardens Beyond Eden: Bio-aesthetics, Eco-Futurism, and Dystopia at dOCUMENTA (13)
By T.J. Demos
A Profile of SHIRIN NESHAT
By Michele Gerber Klein

ArtSeen

Twelve Works
By Tsibi Geva
Just Call Me Al
By Benjamin Hollander
A Studio Visit in Four Parts
By Ammiel Alcalay
ELLEN GRONEMEYER Affentheater
By Charles Schultz
LUISA RABBIA Coming and Going
By Stephanie Buhmann
Anecdotal Response to a Kossoff Motif
By Joseph Masheck
QUAY BROTHERS On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Shaping the Structure of Painting CHARLES HINMAN
By Robert C. Morgan
THOMAS MICCHELLI Portfolio x Appunti
By James Kalm
LOUISE FISHMAN
By Jonathan Goodman
RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER Voice Array
By Chloé Rossetti
Lecture for Chicago
By Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Rebecca Norton
Three Poems
By Miguel Hernández, translated by Don Share
His Artificial Lover Sings a Wordless Song
By Michael Palmer
Andrew MacNair, First Egg Chapel
By Andrew MacNair
BERNADETTE CORPORATION 2000 Wasted Years
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
FRANK MOORE Toxic Beauty
By Valery Oisteanu
CAROL RAMA Spazio anche più che tempo
By David Rhodes
TOBA KHEDOORI
By William Corwin
On the Ghost of a Boy Returning to Newark (For children of mixed backgrounds everywhere.)
By Alex Duensing
Two Poems
By Joanna Fuhrman
Earthly Delights
By Joseph Lease
Removing Barriers Mobilizes Resources
By David Gersten
Herbie Vogel
By Lucio Pozzi

Books

At the End the Baby Disappears
By Laura Jean Moore
The Multifarious Am
By Dean Kostos
Life-Size
By Luis Jaramillo
Kafka’s Closest Twin Brother
By Andrea Scrima
JOHN SUMMERS and CHRIS LEHMANN with John Cotter
Rapid Transit
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
THE EDITORS OF ELECTRIC LITERATURE with Aspen Matis and Justin Matis
The Art of Nietzsche
By Joseph Nechvatal
Tangled Up in Rue
By Jim Feast
MATTHEW VOLLMER with Weston Cutter
MAUREEN McLANE with Adam Fitzgerald

Music

Brooklyn is Burning
By George Grella
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
What if the D.J. were the NGO?
By Emily Gogolak
Network Potential
By Andrew Cappetta
“HAND ME A FLAG…” Maynard and the Musties
By Tsaurah Litzky

Dance

DOUGLAS DUNN in conversation with Nancy Dalva
Modern Antiquity
By Ryan Wenzel
Inner Child
By Garnet Henderson

Film

ARCADIAN RHYTHMS: On Ben Rivers’s Two Years at Sea
By Rachael Rakes
CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE Leos Carax’s Holy Motors
By Leo Goldsmith
“WINNING A (HI)STORY OUT OF PLACES” Christian Petzold’s Barbara
By Christina Gerhardt
STILL LIFE David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
By Paul Felten

Theater

THERE WILL BE BLOOD The Debate Society Takes Bushwick
By Amy Rose Marsh
In A Small Room With An Unpredictable Person: Filling Up on The Pumpkin Pie Show with Mac Rogers
By Mac Rogers
Trimming the Fat Samuel D. Hunter with Tommy Smith
By Tommy Smith

Fiction

2 Stories
By Lewis Warsh
When did I type this
By Blake Butler
The Third House
By J. A. Tyler
Homeless
By Leah Hayes
For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo
By Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
One Year For a Dog Equals Seven Years For a Person
By Sergi Pàmies | Translated from the Catalan by Julie Wark
Arrow Schmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
New England
By Matthew Thurber
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Bliss
By Suzanne Scanlon

Poetry

Four
By Ann Lauterbach
from When Jazz was the Capital of Alaska
By Chris Pusateri
Notes on the Construction of Ghost Costumes
By Ken L. Walker

Art Books

PAINTER’S JOURNAL
By John Ganz
DENISE GREEN: AN ARTIST’S ODYSSEY
By Juliet Helmke
SILENCE
By Ricky D'Ambrose

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