DEC 09-JAN 10

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The Church of the Divine Heckle
By Reverend Billy
ON THE ISLE OF ROCKS
By Sabine Heinlein
JOSHUA DERR: Bearing Witness to Gentrification
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

The Brooklyn Rail’s Player of the Year 2009
By Theodore Hamm
Report from Jacmel
By Jacques Africot
A Rookie Quarterback, Columnist, and Two Footballs
By Jill Magi
FALLOUT
By Katy Bolger
Dreams
By Toni Cela
RUDY WURLITZER with Theodore Hamm
By Theodore Hamm
Dreams From Obama
By Richard Wells
Inside The Hive Mind
By Christopher G. Moore
Your Words Have Iron in Them
By Jason Flores-Williams
A Rotten Legacy?
By Stuart Schrader
Docs in Sight: Coming to a Theater Near You—but Only for One Night
By Williams Cole
In Mammon We Trust
By Daniel Colucciello Barber
At the Crossroads
By Riddhi Shah
Laying the Groundwork
By Jenny Hendrix
Inside the Inbox
By Alex Gallo-Brown
The Chabon Method
By Kaitlin Bell
Cut Him Off
By Christopher Michel

Art

LYNDA BENGLIS with Phong Bui
NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI with Phong Bui
DAVID ANFAM with John Yau
SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD with John Yau

ArtSeen

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn
By R. H. Lossin
WALID RAAD: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World/Part 1_Volume 1_Chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)
By Kara L. Rooney
RAILING OPINION: Batman, Bernini and Young Romantics
By Lisa Corinne Davis
NICOLE EISENMAN
By John Yau
Letter from BERLIN: FRANK BADUR, Why Pattern?
By David Rhodes
Letter from LONDON: JON THOMPSON, Paintings from The Toronto Cycle
By Sherman Sam
MARILYN MINTER, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
By Terry R. Myers
SAARINEN: ONE OF US?
By Joseph Masheck
ALBERS’ RECORD JACKETS: Doing an Artful Job
By Joseph Masheck
Picasso and the Allure of Language
By Kimberly Lamm
ARSHILE GORKY: A Retrospective
By Emily Warner
ANNE TRUITT: Perception and Reflection
By Anne Byrd
NORMAN BLUHM: A Retrospective of Works on Paper, 1948-1998
By Craig Olson
THE BAUHAUS IDEA: How To Live with Art
By Robert C. Morgan
FOOTLOOSE AMONG THE FUNCTORS
By Shane McAdams
Metamorphosis Victorianus
By Valery Oisteanu
Alias Man Ray
By Ben La Rocco
URS FISCHER: Marguerite de Ponty
By Kathleen Massara
Social Curiosities: An exhibition of new work by the 2008-2009 Fellows of the New York Academy of Art
By Sharon L. Butler

Books

FICTION: Tragedy with a Gentle Hand
By Bruce Seymour
FICTION: Soviet Caesars and State Raincoats
By Kseniya Melnik
NON-FICTION: The Head Dead
By Christopher Vola
FICTION: Stairs and Flourishes
By John Madera
NON-FICTION: Down for Account
By Christopher Vola
FICTION: It Was Better Not to Be Born at All
By Cole Larsen
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
TOKENS
By Tatiaana Laine, Renee E. D'Aoust, Nils Stolpe, Cody Upton, and Amber Benham
In Conversation with H. M. Naqvi
NONFICTION: Are We Cool?
By Anis Shivani

Music

The 2009 New Yorker Festival: A MINI-MUSIC SAMPLER
By Daniel J. Kushner
“HOW WILL I GET PAID?” Music Industry Execs Discuss Payment Models, Pirates, and Monetization at the CMJ Music Marathon
By Mimi Luse
MET 2.0
By George Grella
The Ouija Board of Sonic Energy Douglas Henderson: “MUSIC FOR 100 CARPENTERS” at Pierogi Gallery
By Jamian Juliano-Villani
Outsider Looking In DANIEL JOHNSTON: IS AND ALWAYS WAS (Eternal Yip Eye)
By Katy Henriksen
More Songs About Love, Desire, and Restlessness PAOLO CONTE: PSICHE (ECM Records)
By Alessandro Cassin
MAYER HAWTHORNE: Not Through Playin' the Fool for Love
By Audrea Lim

Dance

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: A Celebration of Dance at the 92nd Street Y
By Evan Namerow
BILL T. JONES: Serenade/The Proposition
By Dalia Ratnikas
HIP-HOP CARNY: Teaching New Dancers Old Tricks
By Joey Lico
CAVE New York Butoh Festival—The Butoh-Kan Phase October 23–November 25, 2009
By Erika Eichelberger
ONWARD TO 2010
By Mary Love Hodges
A Man's World: CHARLIE’S ANGELS AT THE KITCHEN, October 22-24
By L.J. Sunshine
Preview THE GOOD DANCE—DAKAR/BROOKLYN AT BAM, December 16th-19th
By Dalia Ratnikas
Traveling in Time, to the Pear Garden: HAN-TANG YUEFU ENSEMBLE’S THE FEAST OF HAN XIZAI AT THE JOYCE THEATER, November 3-8
By David St.-Lascaux
Replay as Revivification: PARADES & CHANGES, REPLAYS AT DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP, PERFORMA 09, November 18th, 2009
By Thom Donovan

Film

DEPTH IN A DECADE OF DISTRACTION: The Twenty Best Films
By David N. Meyer
When Men Were Thin
By Sarahjane Blum
BAD MOVIE, SILLY LIEUTENANT
By Malcolm Wyer
BEYOND THE ABSURD: Roland Tavel and Andy Warhol
By Mary Hanlon
CINEPHILIA: Port of Call Busan
By Christopher Bourne

Theater

Out of Body Experiments: LISA D’AMOUR AND KATIE PEARL with Erin Courtney
By Erin Courtney
LEN JENKIN’S THE DREAM EXPRESS: The Outlaw Lounge Act Returns
By Gary Winter
Why Are We Sitting in the Same Room? CHAUTAUQUA!
By Trish Harnetiaux
The Personal Historical: ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH
By Kathryn Walat
The Excellent Fopperies of the World: YOUNG JEAN LEE TAKES ON LEAR
By Alan Lockwood

Fiction

RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
By Jonathan Baumbach
VLAD
By David Varno
OLD MAN
By Nancy Lynn Weber
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

hrzn
By Marcella Durand
Silent Pictures Recognize the World II
By Wanda Phipps
Two
By Robert Hershon
geese
By Evan Kennedy
Los Angeles Series
By Joshua Baldwin
Motherfuckerless Brooklyn
By Ron Singer

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DEC 09-JAN 10

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

The Church of the Divine Heckle
By Reverend Billy
ON THE ISLE OF ROCKS
By Sabine Heinlein
JOSHUA DERR: Bearing Witness to Gentrification
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

The Brooklyn Rail’s Player of the Year 2009
By Theodore Hamm
Report from Jacmel
By Jacques Africot
A Rookie Quarterback, Columnist, and Two Footballs
By Jill Magi
FALLOUT
By Katy Bolger
Dreams
By Toni Cela
RUDY WURLITZER with Theodore Hamm
By Theodore Hamm
Dreams From Obama
By Richard Wells
Inside The Hive Mind
By Christopher G. Moore
Your Words Have Iron in Them
By Jason Flores-Williams
A Rotten Legacy?
By Stuart Schrader
Docs in Sight: Coming to a Theater Near You—but Only for One Night
By Williams Cole
In Mammon We Trust
By Daniel Colucciello Barber
At the Crossroads
By Riddhi Shah
Laying the Groundwork
By Jenny Hendrix
Inside the Inbox
By Alex Gallo-Brown
The Chabon Method
By Kaitlin Bell
Cut Him Off
By Christopher Michel

Art

LYNDA BENGLIS with Phong Bui
NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI with Phong Bui
DAVID ANFAM with John Yau
SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD with John Yau

ArtSeen

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn
By R. H. Lossin
WALID RAAD: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World/Part 1_Volume 1_Chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)
By Kara L. Rooney
RAILING OPINION: Batman, Bernini and Young Romantics
By Lisa Corinne Davis
NICOLE EISENMAN
By John Yau
Letter from BERLIN: FRANK BADUR, Why Pattern?
By David Rhodes
Letter from LONDON: JON THOMPSON, Paintings from The Toronto Cycle
By Sherman Sam
MARILYN MINTER, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
By Terry R. Myers
SAARINEN: ONE OF US?
By Joseph Masheck
ALBERS’ RECORD JACKETS: Doing an Artful Job
By Joseph Masheck
Picasso and the Allure of Language
By Kimberly Lamm
ARSHILE GORKY: A Retrospective
By Emily Warner
ANNE TRUITT: Perception and Reflection
By Anne Byrd
NORMAN BLUHM: A Retrospective of Works on Paper, 1948-1998
By Craig Olson
THE BAUHAUS IDEA: How To Live with Art
By Robert C. Morgan
FOOTLOOSE AMONG THE FUNCTORS
By Shane McAdams
Metamorphosis Victorianus
By Valery Oisteanu
Alias Man Ray
By Ben La Rocco
URS FISCHER: Marguerite de Ponty
By Kathleen Massara
Social Curiosities: An exhibition of new work by the 2008-2009 Fellows of the New York Academy of Art
By Sharon L. Butler

Books

FICTION: Tragedy with a Gentle Hand
By Bruce Seymour
FICTION: Soviet Caesars and State Raincoats
By Kseniya Melnik
NON-FICTION: The Head Dead
By Christopher Vola
FICTION: Stairs and Flourishes
By John Madera
NON-FICTION: Down for Account
By Christopher Vola
FICTION: It Was Better Not to Be Born at All
By Cole Larsen
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
TOKENS
By Tatiaana Laine, Renee E. D'Aoust, Nils Stolpe, Cody Upton, and Amber Benham
In Conversation with H. M. Naqvi
NONFICTION: Are We Cool?
By Anis Shivani

Music

The 2009 New Yorker Festival: A MINI-MUSIC SAMPLER
By Daniel J. Kushner
“HOW WILL I GET PAID?” Music Industry Execs Discuss Payment Models, Pirates, and Monetization at the CMJ Music Marathon
By Mimi Luse
MET 2.0
By George Grella
The Ouija Board of Sonic Energy Douglas Henderson: “MUSIC FOR 100 CARPENTERS” at Pierogi Gallery
By Jamian Juliano-Villani
Outsider Looking In DANIEL JOHNSTON: IS AND ALWAYS WAS (Eternal Yip Eye)
By Katy Henriksen
More Songs About Love, Desire, and Restlessness PAOLO CONTE: PSICHE (ECM Records)
By Alessandro Cassin
MAYER HAWTHORNE: Not Through Playin' the Fool for Love
By Audrea Lim

Dance

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: A Celebration of Dance at the 92nd Street Y
By Evan Namerow
BILL T. JONES: Serenade/The Proposition
By Dalia Ratnikas
HIP-HOP CARNY: Teaching New Dancers Old Tricks
By Joey Lico
CAVE New York Butoh Festival—The Butoh-Kan Phase October 23–November 25, 2009
By Erika Eichelberger
ONWARD TO 2010
By Mary Love Hodges
A Man's World: CHARLIE’S ANGELS AT THE KITCHEN, October 22-24
By L.J. Sunshine
Preview THE GOOD DANCE—DAKAR/BROOKLYN AT BAM, December 16th-19th
By Dalia Ratnikas
Traveling in Time, to the Pear Garden: HAN-TANG YUEFU ENSEMBLE’S THE FEAST OF HAN XIZAI AT THE JOYCE THEATER, November 3-8
By David St.-Lascaux
Replay as Revivification: PARADES & CHANGES, REPLAYS AT DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP, PERFORMA 09, November 18th, 2009
By Thom Donovan

Film

DEPTH IN A DECADE OF DISTRACTION: The Twenty Best Films
By David N. Meyer
When Men Were Thin
By Sarahjane Blum
BAD MOVIE, SILLY LIEUTENANT
By Malcolm Wyer
BEYOND THE ABSURD: Roland Tavel and Andy Warhol
By Mary Hanlon
CINEPHILIA: Port of Call Busan
By Christopher Bourne

Theater

Out of Body Experiments: LISA D’AMOUR AND KATIE PEARL with Erin Courtney
By Erin Courtney
LEN JENKIN’S THE DREAM EXPRESS: The Outlaw Lounge Act Returns
By Gary Winter
Why Are We Sitting in the Same Room? CHAUTAUQUA!
By Trish Harnetiaux
The Personal Historical: ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH
By Kathryn Walat
The Excellent Fopperies of the World: YOUNG JEAN LEE TAKES ON LEAR
By Alan Lockwood

Fiction

RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
By Jonathan Baumbach
VLAD
By David Varno
OLD MAN
By Nancy Lynn Weber
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

hrzn
By Marcella Durand
Silent Pictures Recognize the World II
By Wanda Phipps
Two
By Robert Hershon
geese
By Evan Kennedy
Los Angeles Series
By Joshua Baldwin
Motherfuckerless Brooklyn
By Ron Singer

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