Local In Conversation
Wayne Barrett with Williams Cole
Williams Cole sits down with Wayne Barrett, Senior Editor at the Village Voice and an icon of New York City journalism. Barrett’s new book is Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11.
Just Another War?
By Anat BiletzkiWas the latest war in Lebanon another war? Another, as in one more (of the same) in the list of Middle East wars? Or another, as in a different war (of new dimensions)? Paradoxically—it was both.
Art In Conversation
Ron Gorchov with Robert Storr and Phong Bui
On the occasion of his exhibit, Double Trouble at P.S. 1, which will be on view till November 20th, Rail’s Consulting Editor Robert Storr and Publisher Phong Bui paid a visit to Ron Gorchov’s studio in Brooklyn one afternoon to discuss with the painter his life and work.
Art In Conversation
Alison Elizabeth Taylor with John Yau
In the midst of preparation for her first one-person exhibit at James Cohan Gallery, which will be on view from Sept. 7th to Sept. 30th, Alison Elizabeth Taylor takes time off from her busy schedule to welcome Rail art editor, John Yau, at her Brooklyn Navy Yard studio. After a brief viewing of her only oil painting, “Subjects F9-L9 Finish Corporate Pride Project”, they sat down and began to discuss her life and work.
Art In Conversation
A Life in Theory: Sylvère Lotringer with Joan Waltemath
Sylvère Lotringer is professor of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University and general editor of Semiotext(e). He has a forthcoming book of interviews titled David Wojnarowicz: A definitive history of five or six years on the lower east side, as well as an augmented version of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions. He splits his time between New York and Baja, CA.
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Bob Dylan and the Adolescent Sublime
By Charles BernsteinBob Dylan and his Chronicles came to mind this past season at two unexpected places—the retrospective of the sculptor Eva Hesse at the Jewish Museum and Richard Foreman’s most recent show, Zomboid!
The Hard-Boiled Egg
By Eugéne IonescoShot of a modern kitchen. In the middle of the kitchen, a young woman wearing a white apron, holding an egg in her hand. Then the fingers that are holding it, and the hand; then, the woman’s neatly arranged hair; then her forehead, her eyes, her head.
Theater In Dialogue
Mac Makes an Opera
By Kathryn WalatMac Wellman is one of the reasons I’m a playwright. His play A Murder of Crows was the first thing we read (after Fornes) in my undergraduate playwriting class lead by then-grad student Nilo Cruz. The fact that plays could be like this—a weird girl conjuring up the weather with words that made your mouth water—just made me want to write them.
Editor's Message
The lessons of 9/11?
By Theodore HammIt goes without saying that 9/11 was the worst day in the history of our city.
ArtSeen
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A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
– By Lauren Ross -
Mike Kelley Green Depths And Los Angeles 1955-1985, Naissance d’une Capitale Artistique
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Daughters of Dada
– By Valery Oisteanu -
The New Landscape / The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art
– By John Yau -
Report from London
– By Sherman Sam -
Into Me / Out of Me
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Julie Monaco
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Rudy Burckhardt
– By Ben La Rocco -
Hans Richter
– By David Markus -
Rosa Loy
– By James Kalm -
Zaha Hadid
– By Cynthia Eardley -
Clare Gasson
– By Shane McAdams -
Report from Germany
– By Barbara Weidle
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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The lessons of 9/11?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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Counting Off Upstate: Just Say Moo
– By Ezekiel Edwards -
From Breuckelen to Brooklyn: Writers Craft a Compelling—and Fun—Borough History
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Will One More Domino Fall in Williamsburg?
– By Leah Kreger -
Rumble in Brooklyn
– By Ellen Moynihan -
Wayne Barrett with Williams Cole
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Pedal Power vs. the NYPD
– By reZz A
Express
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Left on the Inside: Robert Scheer with Theodore Hamm
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Just Another War?
– By Anat Biletzki -
All Quiet on the Eastern Front by Retort
– By Retort -
Taking the Long Way Home from Lebanon
– By Lynn Love -
“On the Trail in Oregon: Is the Party Over?”
– By Doug Cordell -
Torture Doesn’t Just Have to be Rabid Canines and Rape Pyramids Anymore
– By Marika Josephson -
“Movies are All People Know” An Interview With Ken Jacobs
– By Jim Knipfel -
A Begrudging Tribute to Mickey Spillane
– By Tim McLoughlin -
Experiential Lit: Grégoire Bouillier with Yann Nicol Translated by Violaine Huisman and Lorin Stein
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Allende Lives
– By Alina Reyes
Art
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Ron Gorchov with Robert Storr and Phong Bui
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A Tribute to Connie Reyes-Corrigan (1929–2006)
– By Margrit Lewczuk, Bill Jensen, Diane Palomba, and Gabriel Held -
A Life in Theory: Sylvère Lotringer with Joan Waltemath
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Alison Elizabeth Taylor with John Yau
ArtSeen
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A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
– By Lauren Ross -
Mike Kelley Green Depths And Los Angeles 1955-1985, Naissance d’une Capitale Artistique
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Daughters of Dada
– By Valery Oisteanu -
The New Landscape / The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art
– By John Yau -
Report from London
– By Sherman Sam -
Into Me / Out of Me
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Julie Monaco
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Rudy Burckhardt
– By Ben La Rocco -
Hans Richter
– By David Markus -
Rosa Loy
– By James Kalm -
Zaha Hadid
– By Cynthia Eardley -
Clare Gasson
– By Shane McAdams -
Report from Germany
– By Barbara Weidle
Books
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Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Bob Dylan and the Adolescent Sublime
– By Charles Bernstein -
Living Things
– By William Corbett -
Politics: Celebrity of War
– By Katy Henriksen -
More
– By Jane King -
Beat for Beat
– By Douglas Manson -
The Truth in Winkie
– By Veronika Sheer -
Environment: Coal Junkies
– By Erica Wetter -
Dawgone Shaggy
– By Gary Winter
Music
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Echo and Reverb
– By Dann Baker -
Glam with Fangs: Bowie’s Diamond Dogs Reissued
– By Paul Grimstad -
Dimensions in Music: From Mambo to Salsa, Part Five, IP Hilton Ruiz—Learning with los Grandes—Plying New Terrain
– By Alan Lockwood -
Ze Cat’s Meow: Pamela Z: “ New Strategies with DJ Spooky” at Symphony Space, the Cutting Room, and the Stone
– By Ellen Pearlman -
Tropicalia Retriumphant: Os Mutantes Come to New York
– By Todd Simmons -
Sounds, Paths, Radios: Notes on Stars Like Fleas
– By David Varno and Erin Durant
Dance
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Dance Crush: Batsheva Dance Company at the Lincoln Center Festival
– By Catherine Massey -
Winter Voyage/The Rite of Spring: Emanuel Gat Dance
– By Krista Miranda
Film
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It’s a Mann’s World
– By Jenny Schlenzka -
Suspend My Disbelief, Please
– By David N. Meyer -
Idealism on Crack
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Girls on Film
– By Sarahjane Blum -
Princes and Assassins
– By David Wilentz and Sara Mayeux -
New Maps of Heaven
– By Ioannis Mookas
Theater
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YOU GOTTA HAVE ♥ Ken Urban’s I ♥ KANT
– By Isaac Butler -
A Great Name: A Remembrance of Lloyd Richards
– By Lonnie Carter -
Nothing That Is So Is So: Young Jean Lee’s Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven
– By Richard Fulco -
Revolution at the Gates: Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee’s New Downtown Now
– By Jason Grote -
Mac Makes an Opera
– By Kathryn Walat -
A Trustworthy Theater: REDEYE: A New York-Ljubljana Translation Think Tank
– By Amiel Melnick -
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Iphigenia
– By Chiori Miyagawa -
Be Like Lloyd
– By Aurin Squire -
DOWNTOWN IS A STATE OF MIND CUNY’s Prelude ‘06
– By Jake Hooker
Fiction
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The Hard-Boiled Egg
– By Eugéne Ionesco -
The President’s Mouth
– By Shelley Jackson -
MILO- A Conversation Between Christine Schutt and Diane Williams
– By Diane Williams and Christine Schutt
Poetry
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First Italian Prose (1954)
– By Jennifer Scappettone and Amelia Rosselli -
Ten Truisms and a Lie, Sitcomposite: A Cento, Are You a Racist?
– By Ravi Shankar
LastWords
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A Leap Second
– By Michael Martone
