What Lies Beneath
By Tim StellohIt was a hot day in July 1996 when Dorothy Swick started smelling chemicals in the basement of her Greenpoint home. She scoured the sheetrock walls and barren concrete floor for clues, but found nothing.
Imperial Wasteland
By Philip S. GolubLike the tightly knit group of imperialists who provoked a “splendid little war” with Spain in 1898 to “establish the supremacy of the American republic throughout the East till the end of time,” the neo-imperialist power elites that crystallized in and around the Bush administration imagined when they invaded Iraq that the world was finally theirs.
Art In Conversation
Michael Brenson with David Levi Strauss and Phong Bui
One Saturday afternoon in February, Rail publisher Phong Bui drove up the Hudson Valley to High Falls, New York to visit our consulting editor David Levi Strauss in his library, where they both sat down to talk to art critic Michael Brenson about his life and work.
Art In Conversation
Karin Davie with Joan Waltemath
On the occasion of her traveling mini-survey featuring 41 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, which began last month on February 23rd at the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, Rail contributing editor Joan Waltemath visited Karin Davie’s Lower East Side studio to discuss her life and work.
Art In Conversation
Irving Petlin with John Yau
Irving Petlin discusses the Peace Tower with John Yau.
The King of Boredom
By Kenneth GoldsmithA great big book of graphical scores, sound poems and experimental performative texts arrived in my mailbox recently. Doings by Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004) is a massive—and massively important—tome for anyone interested in the history of 20th innovative poetry.
Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence
By Eyal DanieliIn the 20th century pantheon of modernist European painters, Giorgio Morandi’s image of formal purity, and his reputation of personal asceticism has been second to none, except, perhaps, for Alberto Giacometti.
Of Community & Constants: Two Decades of Evidence
By Corey HarrowerIn its 20th anniversary run at the Joyce Theater, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence presented six works whose most resonant effects stem from the performers’ precision and strength.
A Selection of the Kenny G. Letters
By Kenneth GoldsmithPresented here are some of my very favorite Kenny G fan letters.
I AM DYING, MEESTER?
By William BurroughsPanama clung to our bodies—Probably cut—Anything made this dream—It has consumed the customers of fossil orgasm—Ran into my old friend Jones—So badly off, forgotten, coughing in 1920 movie…
Editor's Message
A Time for Talk and...Action
By Theodore HammThe Muslim world erupts in reaction to the juvenile provocations of a reactionary Danish newspaper. The Vice President fills a hunting partner full of buckshot and then makes Harry take the fall. The Democrats take a hard line on the United Arab Emirates but have no position on the war in Iraq. It is indeed a cartoonish moment in world affairs.
ArtSeen
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Histories of Violence
– By Yasmeen Siddiqui, Hrag Vartanian, Thomas Micchelli, and Dore Ashton -
Dan Walsh
– By Joan Waltemath -
Thomas Nozkowski
– By Ben La Rocco -
Gelah Penn
– By Ben La Rocco -
Susan Bee and Miriam Laufer
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Alberto Magnelli
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Nick Lawrence
– By James Kalm -
David Kapp
– By James Kalm -
Leon Golub
– By David Marcus -
Maria Elena González
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Charlene von Heyl
– By Roger White
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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A Time for Talk and...Action
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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If You See Something, Say Something...
– By Brooklyn Rail Staff -
What Lies Beneath
– By Tim Stelloh -
What’s for Dinner
– By Marjory Garrison -
New Skool Journalism Beats the Street
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We Made It Ma! Williamsburg Named One of State’s “Seven to Save”
– By Williams Cole -
For What Reason?
– By Missy Comley Beattie
Express
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Imperial Wasteland
– By Philip S. Golub -
The Line We’re On
– By David Levi Strauss -
The Billionaires are Back
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
The 2006 Democrats, as Seen by Future Historians
– By Theodore Hamm -
War’s Hellish Landscape
– By Charles Firth -
Dispatch
– By David Levi Strauss -
A Letter from Hannah Arendt to Karl Jaspers
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Art
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Karin Davie with Joan Waltemath
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Frank Stella 1958
– By William Corbett -
Irving Petlin with John Yau
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Michael Brenson with David Levi Strauss and Phong Bui
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In Memory of the Video Mentor: Nam June Paik (1932–2006)
– By Robert C. Morgan
ArtSeen
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Histories of Violence
– By Yasmeen Siddiqui, Hrag Vartanian, Thomas Micchelli, and Dore Ashton -
Dan Walsh
– By Joan Waltemath -
Thomas Nozkowski
– By Ben La Rocco -
Gelah Penn
– By Ben La Rocco -
Susan Bee and Miriam Laufer
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Alberto Magnelli
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Nick Lawrence
– By James Kalm -
David Kapp
– By James Kalm -
Leon Golub
– By David Marcus -
Maria Elena González
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Charlene von Heyl
– By Roger White
Books
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Performance: A Hard Act to Follow
– By Arthur Vaughan -
Brooklyn Boy Makes Good: Charles Reznikoff, the Poet of New York
– By Charles Bernstein -
Kate Braverman with Lisa Kunik
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Fiction: Some Girls
– By Corrie Pikul -
Politics: Pro-choice or no choice
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
History: Back to Square One
– By Michael Calderone -
No More Acts of God: Tim Flannery’s The Weathermakers
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence
– By Eyal Danieli -
Not Quite Crazy, But Close Enough
– By Pat MacEnulty -
The King of Boredom
– By Kenneth Goldsmith
Music
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Yodel-Spotting: Lapsed-Mennonites, Yodeling Truck Drivers, Japanese Carnivores in Lederhosen, and Soft-Core Tyrolean Yodel Porn
– By Bart Plantenga -
An Injury to One Is an Injury to All: Kenny Wollesen and His Marching Band at Zebulon
– By David Varno -
His Way (Not Hers)
– By Joe Maynard
Dance
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Of Community & Constants: Two Decades of Evidence
– By Corey Harrower -
Reminicising on Evidence
– By Cynthia Oliver -
Everyone’s Invited to Dance: The Mark Morris Dance Group Celebrates its 25th Anniversary, Brooklyn-Style
– By Carley Petesch -
An Open Letter to James C. Nicola, Artistic Director of New York Theater Workshop by No Passport
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Film
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BAM Scares Me: Horror Movies for Smart People
– By Patrick Levell -
Mavericks from the East and Last of the Independents: Against the Tide: Rebels and Mavericks in Contemporary Japanese Film
– By David Wilentz -
Academy Award Doc Blues
– By Williams Cole -
The Lamentable, the Laughable and the Lovable: Cabin in the Sky, Stormy Weather, Last Holiday, Something New, and Madea’s Family Reunion
– By Sarahjane Blum
Theater
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Nobody’s Happy About the Beatings, but Attitudes Don’t Change Overnight
– By C. Denby Swanson -
Unmeasured Pleasure: Metering Couplets and Desire with David Grimm
– By Cristina Pippa -
March on Track Current and Coming Events
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Theater of War: Lightbox's Ajax: 100% Fun
– By Madeleine George -
UNIQUE SPECIES: Rare breeds from the Galapagos Back Room shed light on the burgeoning Williamsburg theatre scene.
– By Katya Schapiro -
We Are All Gooks: Qui Nguyen's Trial by Water
– By Justin Boyd
Fiction
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The War Museum
– By Uchida Hyakken -
Hearts, Minds, and Spirits
– By Michael Washburn
Poetry
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What Is a Day?
– By Ann Lauterbach -
No Man’s Land
– By Amy King -
A Selection of the Kenny G. Letters
– By Kenneth Goldsmith -
End of the Year Letter to Friends
– By Jonas Mekas
LastWords
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I AM DYING, MEESTER?
– By William Burroughs
