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Bucking Brooklyn’s Machine LINCOLN RESTLER with Williams Cole
OCCUPY and 350.ORG—You Come Down Here and Embrace!
By Reverend Billy
REPORT CARD The Dumbass Factor
By Liza Featherstone
Court of No Return
By Eleanor J. Bader
CITYNOTES: A Real Relic
By Theodore Hamm
Summer Means Hibernation for Coney Island’s Polar Bears
By Lauren Keating

Express

Giving it All for Ron Paul
By Michael Terry
Big Oil vs. The Little Folks
By Polly Brewster
The Strange Case of Charles Taylor
By Nicholas Jahr
STANLEY ARONOWITZ with Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
Goodbye, Babylon
By Seb Doubinsky
BUSHWICK BOUNCE A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
PORN WARS: The F.B.I.’s Hidden Campaign to Police Morality
By David Rosen
Interested Parties
By Allen Wilcox
Back On The Couch
By Courtney Fiske

Art

HOLLY ZAUSNER with Raphael Rubinstein
JOAN SIMON with Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Absolutely-Too-Much
By Simon Critchley
DAN GRAHAM with Carlos Brillembourg
BLESS with Barry Schwabsky
Why didn’t Lucio Fontana use my sewing machine?
By Elena Berriolo
Suggestions for Summer Reading: Unspeakable Origins
By Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

AVANT-GARDE INK IN CHINA Beyond Pop and Expressionism
By Robert C. Morgan
How Newness Enters the Art World
By Eleanor Heartney
BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS
June 1–3, 2012 JUNG AH KIM’s Studio 56 Bogart Street
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Paving Paradise Part I
By James Kalm
WHITNEY CLAFLIN As Long As You Get To Be Somebody’s Slave, Too
By Jonathan Goodman
ULRICH GEBERT The Negotiated Order
By Charles Schultz
RACHEL KNEEBONE Regarding Rodin
By Desiree Gonzalez
Made in L.A. 2012
By Terry R. Myers
SHANA MOULTON The line where your appearance flips over into reality
By Eve Perry
SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD Recent Works
By Robert Berlind
MICHELLE SEGRE Lost Songs of the Filament
By Sharon L. Butler
Inaugural Show
By Charles Schultz
SVEN LUKIN
By Raphael Rubinstein
MARGARET LANZETTA Reign Marks DAVID PACKER Les Bidons
By Carol Schwarzman
Lightness, Being
By Charles Schultz
“FRESH FOR(U)MS” Garden Party/Arts
By Kara L. Rooney
Material Tak
By Jonathan Goodman
JAIME DAVIDOVICH Re: PLAY
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
HELEN VERHOEVEN Stage Disasters
By David Markus
PROFILE: JACOLBY SATTERWHITE & The New Human Body
By Maxwell Heller
FRANK STELLA Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings
By David Rhodes
ALEX KATZ Prints
By Phong Bui
Is Newness Still New?
By Greg Lindquist
Congratulations

Books

THAD ZIOLKOWSKI with Mindy Cardozo
ELLEN PEARLMAN with Jade Sharma
TIMOTHY NOAH with Annie Juergens Behr
FICTION Cave Art
By Aditi Sriram
FICTION Breaking the Frozen Sea of the Soul: Clarice Lispector
By Audrey Schomer
FICTION The Invisible Woman
By Tatiaana L. Laine
FICTION A Complete and Lucid Whole
By Andrea Scrima
FICTION Bridge to Brooklyn, and Blues Song
By Stephanie Spiro
FICTION Clean Cole
By Diane T. Masucci
NONFICTION Hop Global
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
RAPID TRANSIT Wisdom, Truth, and Beauty—Who Could Ask for More?
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
FICTION Scars to Jar
By Aditi Sriram

Music

Cecil Taylor, Home At Last
By George Grella
(Indie) Rock School
By Kristy Eldredge
Just Add Rain
By David St.-Lascaux
When Worlds Don’t Collide
By Marshall Yarbrough
“If I Make It Out Alive From Hollywood and Vine”
By Todd Simmons
OUTTAKES
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

MARK MORRIS with Nancy Dalva
Queer Expectations
By Christine Shan Shan Hou
JASON SAMUELS SMITH with L. J. Sunshine

Film

SCISSOR SPECULATIONS Cut & Paste: Contemporary Collage Animation From North America at Anthology Film Archives
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
Like Being in a Rainbow: Gregory Markopoulos and the Temenos
By Rebekah Rutkoff
UNSEEN VOICES: Caroline Martel WITH JIM SUPANICK
SKETCHES OF REVOLT: Ali Samadi Ahadi’s The Green Wave
By Steve MacFarlane
PASTORAL: Emmanuel Gras’s Bovines at Rooftop Films
By Daniel Walber

Theater

The Imminent Implosion of 13P
By Ben Gassman
Music is her Muse: Quiara Alegría Hudes and her Path to the Pulitzer
By Marcus Gardley
Welcome to the Fearless Indie Theater Universe. Population? Not Just You
By Crystal Skillman
The Penitents of MAGDALEN: Erin Layton and Julie Kline with Zack Calhoon

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
Mr. Colostomy
By Matthew Thurber
Months
By Leah Hayes
Deals Made Behind Closed Doors
By Benjamin Marra
Arrowschmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
An excerpt from Prehistoric Times
By Eric Chevillard
translated from the French by Alyson Waters
out now from Archipelago Books

Poetry

Particulars of Place
By Richard O. Moore
Apartment 5D
By Edwin Torres

Art Books

Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment
By Norm Paris
Alice Neel: Late Portraits and Still Lifes
By Lily Koto Olive
Nature
By Wendy Vogel

LastWords

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

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JUL-AUG 2012

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

Bucking Brooklyn’s Machine LINCOLN RESTLER with Williams Cole
OCCUPY and 350.ORG—You Come Down Here and Embrace!
By Reverend Billy
REPORT CARD The Dumbass Factor
By Liza Featherstone
Court of No Return
By Eleanor J. Bader
CITYNOTES: A Real Relic
By Theodore Hamm
Summer Means Hibernation for Coney Island’s Polar Bears
By Lauren Keating

Express

Giving it All for Ron Paul
By Michael Terry
Big Oil vs. The Little Folks
By Polly Brewster
The Strange Case of Charles Taylor
By Nicholas Jahr
STANLEY ARONOWITZ with Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
Goodbye, Babylon
By Seb Doubinsky
BUSHWICK BOUNCE A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
PORN WARS: The F.B.I.’s Hidden Campaign to Police Morality
By David Rosen
Interested Parties
By Allen Wilcox
Back On The Couch
By Courtney Fiske

Art

HOLLY ZAUSNER with Raphael Rubinstein
JOAN SIMON with Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Absolutely-Too-Much
By Simon Critchley
DAN GRAHAM with Carlos Brillembourg
BLESS with Barry Schwabsky
Why didn’t Lucio Fontana use my sewing machine?
By Elena Berriolo
Suggestions for Summer Reading: Unspeakable Origins
By Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

AVANT-GARDE INK IN CHINA Beyond Pop and Expressionism
By Robert C. Morgan
How Newness Enters the Art World
By Eleanor Heartney
BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS
June 1–3, 2012 JUNG AH KIM’s Studio 56 Bogart Street
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Paving Paradise Part I
By James Kalm
WHITNEY CLAFLIN As Long As You Get To Be Somebody’s Slave, Too
By Jonathan Goodman
ULRICH GEBERT The Negotiated Order
By Charles Schultz
RACHEL KNEEBONE Regarding Rodin
By Desiree Gonzalez
Made in L.A. 2012
By Terry R. Myers
SHANA MOULTON The line where your appearance flips over into reality
By Eve Perry
SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD Recent Works
By Robert Berlind
MICHELLE SEGRE Lost Songs of the Filament
By Sharon L. Butler
Inaugural Show
By Charles Schultz
SVEN LUKIN
By Raphael Rubinstein
MARGARET LANZETTA Reign Marks DAVID PACKER Les Bidons
By Carol Schwarzman
Lightness, Being
By Charles Schultz
“FRESH FOR(U)MS” Garden Party/Arts
By Kara L. Rooney
Material Tak
By Jonathan Goodman
JAIME DAVIDOVICH Re: PLAY
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
HELEN VERHOEVEN Stage Disasters
By David Markus
PROFILE: JACOLBY SATTERWHITE & The New Human Body
By Maxwell Heller
FRANK STELLA Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings
By David Rhodes
ALEX KATZ Prints
By Phong Bui
Is Newness Still New?
By Greg Lindquist
Congratulations

Books

THAD ZIOLKOWSKI with Mindy Cardozo
ELLEN PEARLMAN with Jade Sharma
TIMOTHY NOAH with Annie Juergens Behr
FICTION Cave Art
By Aditi Sriram
FICTION Breaking the Frozen Sea of the Soul: Clarice Lispector
By Audrey Schomer
FICTION The Invisible Woman
By Tatiaana L. Laine
FICTION A Complete and Lucid Whole
By Andrea Scrima
FICTION Bridge to Brooklyn, and Blues Song
By Stephanie Spiro
FICTION Clean Cole
By Diane T. Masucci
NONFICTION Hop Global
By Jesse Tangen-Mills
RAPID TRANSIT Wisdom, Truth, and Beauty—Who Could Ask for More?
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
FICTION Scars to Jar
By Aditi Sriram

Music

Cecil Taylor, Home At Last
By George Grella
(Indie) Rock School
By Kristy Eldredge
Just Add Rain
By David St.-Lascaux
When Worlds Don’t Collide
By Marshall Yarbrough
“If I Make It Out Alive From Hollywood and Vine”
By Todd Simmons
OUTTAKES
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

MARK MORRIS with Nancy Dalva
Queer Expectations
By Christine Shan Shan Hou
JASON SAMUELS SMITH with L. J. Sunshine

Film

SCISSOR SPECULATIONS Cut & Paste: Contemporary Collage Animation From North America at Anthology Film Archives
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
Like Being in a Rainbow: Gregory Markopoulos and the Temenos
By Rebekah Rutkoff
UNSEEN VOICES: Caroline Martel WITH JIM SUPANICK
SKETCHES OF REVOLT: Ali Samadi Ahadi’s The Green Wave
By Steve MacFarlane
PASTORAL: Emmanuel Gras’s Bovines at Rooftop Films
By Daniel Walber

Theater

The Imminent Implosion of 13P
By Ben Gassman
Music is her Muse: Quiara Alegría Hudes and her Path to the Pulitzer
By Marcus Gardley
Welcome to the Fearless Indie Theater Universe. Population? Not Just You
By Crystal Skillman
The Penitents of MAGDALEN: Erin Layton and Julie Kline with Zack Calhoon

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
Mr. Colostomy
By Matthew Thurber
Months
By Leah Hayes
Deals Made Behind Closed Doors
By Benjamin Marra
Arrowschmitt!!!
By Arryan Decatur
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
An excerpt from Prehistoric Times
By Eric Chevillard
translated from the French by Alyson Waters
out now from Archipelago Books

Poetry

Particulars of Place
By Richard O. Moore
Apartment 5D
By Edwin Torres

Art Books

Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment
By Norm Paris
Alice Neel: Late Portraits and Still Lifes
By Lily Koto Olive
Nature
By Wendy Vogel

LastWords

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

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