MAR 2012

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REPORT CARD Beware the Return of For-Profit Schools
By Liza Featherstone
Occupy Main Street
By Paul McLean
FIGHTING FOR THE SLAVE: a photo essay
By Jim Lafferty
REPORT CARD Ending Mayoral Control
By Liza Featherstone
The CLEANING of a GREAT CITY (McClure’s, April 1897)
By George E. Waring, Jr. Commissioner of Street Cleaning, New York
Faith in Filmmaking
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

The Baffler is back from the dead . . . again
By Orli Van Mourik
The Santorum Syndrome
By Michael Terry
THE DRUG WAR INSIDE
By Jason Flores-Williams
OEDIPAL CONTEXT A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
A Life in Underground Letters | BARNEY ROSSET with Williams Cole
AMINA ARRAF: A “Queered” Antidote
By Nancy Agabian
Shirking the New Literacy
By Adrian Versteegh
Perversion Is No Longer Perverse
By David Rosen
A Dirty Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
By Orli Van Mourik
A Drink To Remember
By R. H. Lossin

Art

MICHELLE GRABNER with Barry Schwabsky
MALCOLM MORLEY with Phong Bui
G. T. PELLIZZI and RAY SMITH with Phong Bui
IN MEMORIAM
Occupy Criticism, Occupy Spring
By Talib Agape Fuegoverde

ArtSeen

A Studio Visit with Franklin Evans: EYESONTHEEDGE
By Kara L. Rooney
JEAN DUBUFFET The Last Two Years
By Valery Oisteanu
SERGEJ JENSEN Sergej Jensen
By Linnea Kniaz
THOMAS SCHEIBITZ A Panoramic View of Basic Events
By Jonathan Goodman
JOSEF ALBERS Paintings, Drawings, Prints
By David Rhodes
FLORINE STETTHEIMER Hieroglyphs of Pleasure
By Jarrett Earnest
BILL JACKLIN Recent Work, New York
By David St.-Lascaux
JANET FISH Recent Paintings
By Vincent Katz
UNTITLED FRIEZE FAIR 2007 Installation by Gert and Uwe Tobias
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
BOSILJKA RADITSA The Nature of Memory
By William Corwin
GEORGE ORTMAN
By Robert C. Morgan
MAGNUS PLESSEN
By Stephanie Buhmann
PATRICK WILSON Color Space
By Corina Larkin
LIU XIA The Silent Strength of Liu Xia
By Charles Schultz

Books

RICHARD SIEBURTH with Adam Fitzgerald
BIOGRAPHY Flawed Composition
By Joseph Nechvatal
FICTION The Young and the Radical
By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
FICTION Resurrected Fiction
By Marietta Brill
FICTION Salvation Army of One
By Malcolm Forbes
FICTION Status of Limitations
By Jenine Holmes
FICTION Fall Into the Future
By Philip Brunst
RAPID TRANSIT Part Epitaph, Part History, Part Malaprop, Part Orgasm
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
FICTION The Man With the Golden Pen
By Jim Feast
FICTION A Diminished Season
By Malcolm Forbes
CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN with Joseph Klarl
FICTION Going Back to Patchogue
By Dan Visel

Music

VANISHING POINT: Will the RIAA and MPAA Wipe International Music Off the Globe?
By Gary Sullivan
Waiting For the (Thin) Man
By Todd Simmons
Tour Diary of Das Racist’s 2012 Australia/New Zealand Relax Tour, January 19–February 5, 2012
By Ashok Kondabolu AKA Dapwell
REALLY GOOD VIBRATIONS: Harry Bertoia's Sonambient Sound Sculptures
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
IT'S GOTTA BE THE SHOES: The Gories and Mark Sultan at the Bell House
By Billups Allen

Dance

Paul Taylor Dance Company | PAUL TAYLOR with Nancy Dalva
At Home in the Body
By Siobhan Burke
Neither Here Nor There
By Christine Shan Shan Hou
Batsheva Dance Company, HORA | OHAD NAHARIN with Evan Namerow

Film

L’ART LE PLUS POLITIQUE | NICOLE BRENEZ with Donal Foreman
AGAINST INTERPRETATION: Hong Sang-soo at the Museum of Moving Image
By Colin Beckett
Andrzej Żuławski at BAM
By Troy Swain
EROS PLUS MASSACRE: Transgressive Romances from Japan and South Korea at the Japan Society
By R. Emmet Sweeney
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE: Selections from MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight 2012
By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes

Theater

Daniel Fish: A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (After David Foster Wallace)
By Gary Winter
Talking Band’s Hot Lunch Apostles Serves Up Religion, Raunch, and Desperation
By Rachel Kranz
Excerpt from Hot Lunch Apostles
By Sidney Goldfarb
Resuscitating Carrie LAWRENCE D. COHEN with Tommy Smith

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Watch Love Grow
By Melissa Febos

Poetry

Two Sonnets for Joe Green
By Ben Mazer
Double Exposure
By Charles Borkhuis
from tidelands [latde/latte]
By Craig Santos Perez
from Periodic Companions
By Laynie Browne
Seven
By Rodrigo Toscano
Hell's Angels
By Ben Mazer

Art Books

The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
By Carol Z. Clark and Orlo H. Clark
Margaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass
By Jonathan Beer
Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art
By Lily Koto Olive
Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century’s Identity Crisis
By Eugenie Dalland

LastWords

from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

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Two Sonnets for Joe Green

MAR 2012

By Ben Mazer

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Ben Mazer

BEN MAZER's poetry collections include Poems (The Pen & Anvil Press) and January 2008 (Dark Sky Books), both published in 2010. He is the editor of Landis Everson's Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press) and Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press).

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MAR 2012

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe $50 annually

Local

REPORT CARD Beware the Return of For-Profit Schools
By Liza Featherstone
Occupy Main Street
By Paul McLean
FIGHTING FOR THE SLAVE: a photo essay
By Jim Lafferty
REPORT CARD Ending Mayoral Control
By Liza Featherstone
The CLEANING of a GREAT CITY (McClure’s, April 1897)
By George E. Waring, Jr. Commissioner of Street Cleaning, New York
Faith in Filmmaking
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

The Baffler is back from the dead . . . again
By Orli Van Mourik
The Santorum Syndrome
By Michael Terry
THE DRUG WAR INSIDE
By Jason Flores-Williams
OEDIPAL CONTEXT A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
A Life in Underground Letters | BARNEY ROSSET with Williams Cole
AMINA ARRAF: A “Queered” Antidote
By Nancy Agabian
Shirking the New Literacy
By Adrian Versteegh
Perversion Is No Longer Perverse
By David Rosen
A Dirty Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
By Orli Van Mourik
A Drink To Remember
By R. H. Lossin

Art

MICHELLE GRABNER with Barry Schwabsky
MALCOLM MORLEY with Phong Bui
G. T. PELLIZZI and RAY SMITH with Phong Bui
IN MEMORIAM
Occupy Criticism, Occupy Spring
By Talib Agape Fuegoverde

ArtSeen

A Studio Visit with Franklin Evans: EYESONTHEEDGE
By Kara L. Rooney
JEAN DUBUFFET The Last Two Years
By Valery Oisteanu
SERGEJ JENSEN Sergej Jensen
By Linnea Kniaz
THOMAS SCHEIBITZ A Panoramic View of Basic Events
By Jonathan Goodman
JOSEF ALBERS Paintings, Drawings, Prints
By David Rhodes
FLORINE STETTHEIMER Hieroglyphs of Pleasure
By Jarrett Earnest
BILL JACKLIN Recent Work, New York
By David St.-Lascaux
JANET FISH Recent Paintings
By Vincent Katz
UNTITLED FRIEZE FAIR 2007 Installation by Gert and Uwe Tobias
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
BOSILJKA RADITSA The Nature of Memory
By William Corwin
GEORGE ORTMAN
By Robert C. Morgan
MAGNUS PLESSEN
By Stephanie Buhmann
PATRICK WILSON Color Space
By Corina Larkin
LIU XIA The Silent Strength of Liu Xia
By Charles Schultz

Books

RICHARD SIEBURTH with Adam Fitzgerald
BIOGRAPHY Flawed Composition
By Joseph Nechvatal
FICTION The Young and the Radical
By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
FICTION Resurrected Fiction
By Marietta Brill
FICTION Salvation Army of One
By Malcolm Forbes
FICTION Status of Limitations
By Jenine Holmes
FICTION Fall Into the Future
By Philip Brunst
RAPID TRANSIT Part Epitaph, Part History, Part Malaprop, Part Orgasm
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
FICTION The Man With the Golden Pen
By Jim Feast
FICTION A Diminished Season
By Malcolm Forbes
CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN with Joseph Klarl
FICTION Going Back to Patchogue
By Dan Visel

Music

VANISHING POINT: Will the RIAA and MPAA Wipe International Music Off the Globe?
By Gary Sullivan
Waiting For the (Thin) Man
By Todd Simmons
Tour Diary of Das Racist’s 2012 Australia/New Zealand Relax Tour, January 19–February 5, 2012
By Ashok Kondabolu AKA Dapwell
REALLY GOOD VIBRATIONS: Harry Bertoia's Sonambient Sound Sculptures
By David St.-Lascaux
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
IT'S GOTTA BE THE SHOES: The Gories and Mark Sultan at the Bell House
By Billups Allen

Dance

Paul Taylor Dance Company | PAUL TAYLOR with Nancy Dalva
At Home in the Body
By Siobhan Burke
Neither Here Nor There
By Christine Shan Shan Hou
Batsheva Dance Company, HORA | OHAD NAHARIN with Evan Namerow

Film

L’ART LE PLUS POLITIQUE | NICOLE BRENEZ with Donal Foreman
AGAINST INTERPRETATION: Hong Sang-soo at the Museum of Moving Image
By Colin Beckett
Andrzej Żuławski at BAM
By Troy Swain
EROS PLUS MASSACRE: Transgressive Romances from Japan and South Korea at the Japan Society
By R. Emmet Sweeney
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE: Selections from MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight 2012
By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes

Theater

Daniel Fish: A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (After David Foster Wallace)
By Gary Winter
Talking Band’s Hot Lunch Apostles Serves Up Religion, Raunch, and Desperation
By Rachel Kranz
Excerpt from Hot Lunch Apostles
By Sidney Goldfarb
Resuscitating Carrie LAWRENCE D. COHEN with Tommy Smith

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
Watch Love Grow
By Melissa Febos

Poetry

Two Sonnets for Joe Green
By Ben Mazer
Double Exposure
By Charles Borkhuis
from tidelands [latde/latte]
By Craig Santos Perez
from Periodic Companions
By Laynie Browne
Seven
By Rodrigo Toscano
Hell's Angels
By Ben Mazer

Art Books

The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
By Carol Z. Clark and Orlo H. Clark
Margaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass
By Jonathan Beer
Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art
By Lily Koto Olive
Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century’s Identity Crisis
By Eugenie Dalland

LastWords

from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

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