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Art

MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES with Maya Harakawa
MELEKO MOKGOSI with Allie Biswas
ANDREA ZITTEL with Laila Pedro
historical snapshot Interview with Salvador Allende
produced by Roberto Rossellini
DOUGLAS CRIMP with Jarrett Earnest

ArtSeen

Mall and Mosque: Authority Appraised and Approved SOPHIA AL-MARIA Black Friday
By Mira Dayal
BRUCE CONNER It’s All True
By Matthew Biro
TARYN SIMON An Occupation of Loss
By David A. Willis
MATTHEW BARNEY Facility of Decline
By Darragh McNicholas
VICTOR BURGIN
By Phillip Griffith
LYNDA BENGLIS
By David Rhodes
PETER SHIRE
By Jonathan Goodman
Take Me (I’m Yours)
By Hannah Sage Kay
KYLE STAVER
By Kate Liebman
BRADLEY WALKER TOMLIN A Retrospective
By Joyce Beckenstein
Occupy Peace
By Phong Bui
DONALD MOFFETT Any Fallow Field
By Phong Bui

Critics Page

James Baldwin and the Present, Nettle Danger"> We Pluck this Flower Safely:
James Baldwin and the Present, Nettle Danger
Guest Critic: Rich Blint
“A House Built on Bondage Cannot Stand”
By Chris Winks
Each of Us Contains the Other: James Baldwin’s Steadfast Morality
By Claudia Roth Pierpont
The General is in the House
By Patricia Spears Jones
Courting the End of the World: Heeding James Baldwin’s Invitation to take up a Dangerous Morality
By James T. Roane
The Victory Not Yet Won
By John Keene
“Love is a Growing Up”
By Erica Hunt
The Seer: James Baldwin and the (Death) Mask in Immarginations
By Tracie Morris

Books

Writing Outside Time
By Joshua Alvarez
Kafka’s Konundrum: Narcissism, Self-Surveillance, and Unreality
By Christine Cheon
Little Moments CHARLES BOCK in conversation with Joseph Salvatore
Melissa Yancy’s Exacting, Precise World
By Weston Cutter
There’s No Place Like Time, or The Art of Trash Diaries, Curiosity Cabinets, & Determined Noticing LANCE and ANDI OLSEN in conversation with Renée E. D’Aoust
Deep Monstrosity
By Weston Cutter
Selling Our Cities
By Artie Niederhoffer
From the Ground Up
By Hilary Reid
All the Furious Living and all the Furious Dying
By Tony Leuzzi
Down on the Cutting Room Floor
By John Madera
NOTHING IN, NOTHING OUT T.C. BOYLE with Catherine LaSota
Medical Cultures
By Brian O'Doherty
Day In, Day Out
By Sara Roffino

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Diary of a Mad Composer
By George Grella
Read the Label
By Marshall Yarbrough
Trust in the Label(s)
By George Grella
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Family as a Battlefield nora chipaumire at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
By Ivan Talijancic
STEVEN MELENDEZ with Gillian Jakab
I Want to Tell You Some Things
By Erica Getto
Grand, Pleasurable, and Accessible
By Susan Yung

Film

TRINH T. MINH-HA with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa & Patricia Alvarez
HERE’S TO THE CRAZY ONES Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama
By Steve Macfarlane
DO YOUR OWN STYLE: On John Wilson
By Dan Sullivan
RED AGAIN On Owen Hatherley’s The Chaplin Machine
By Celluloid Liberation Front

Theater

THE REST I MAKE UP: MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS Michelle Memran with Katie Pearl
THE SOL PROJECT JACOB PADRÓN with John Michael DiResta
FACING JUDGEMENT DAY Doomocracy Comes to the Brooklyn Army Terminal
By Andi Stover
Sounding Like Qui Nguyen: Vietgone
By Trista Baldwin

Fiction

Flick
by Raymond Roussel, translated from the French by FedraÂ RodrÃguezÂ Hinojosa
inSerial: parts one & two Delusions of Being Observed
By Lewis Warsh
an extract from Martutene
by Ramon Saizabitoria, translated from the Basque by Aritz Branton. Out now from Hispabooks Publishing.
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 2: The Oilbird: Negrisis Giganticus
By Sid Gershgoren
an extract from Memoirs of a Polar Bear
by Yoko Tawada, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky. Out next month from NEWÂ DIRECTIONS.
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley

Poetry

Dropout Poem
By Camilo Roldán
Four
By Joanna Fuhrman
Four
By Bianca Stone
from Maybe the Sweet Honey Pours
By Paolo Javier
Four
By Jessica Fiorini

Verbatim

RICHARD DIEBENKORN: From Russia with Love

Art Books

Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
By Alexandra Fowle
Bruce Davidson: Survey
By Zack Hatfield

Special Report

SPECIAL REPORT Dispatches from the Campaign
By David Levi Strauss

Field Notes

The Republicans Have Been Trumped
By Charlie Post
Labor Costs and the Life of the Mind
By Samuel Feldblum
We Are Not in Possession of Power; We Are in Possession of the Government: The Long Goodbye of Social Democracy in Latin America
By Matthew Whitley
Seizing Freedom: DAVID ROEDIGER with Peter St. Clair
On Time and a Half, Learning Disabilities, Secondary Gain, and the Business of Mental Health
By Jose A. Tapia

The Well

Rosemary’s Greenpoint Tavern
By Sara Christoph

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OCT 2016

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OCT 2016

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Art

MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES with Maya Harakawa
MELEKO MOKGOSI with Allie Biswas
ANDREA ZITTEL with Laila Pedro
historical snapshot Interview with Salvador Allende
produced by Roberto Rossellini
DOUGLAS CRIMP with Jarrett Earnest

ArtSeen

Mall and Mosque: Authority Appraised and Approved SOPHIA AL-MARIA Black Friday
By Mira Dayal
BRUCE CONNER It’s All True
By Matthew Biro
TARYN SIMON An Occupation of Loss
By David A. Willis
MATTHEW BARNEY Facility of Decline
By Darragh McNicholas
VICTOR BURGIN
By Phillip Griffith
LYNDA BENGLIS
By David Rhodes
PETER SHIRE
By Jonathan Goodman
Take Me (I’m Yours)
By Hannah Sage Kay
KYLE STAVER
By Kate Liebman
BRADLEY WALKER TOMLIN A Retrospective
By Joyce Beckenstein
Occupy Peace
By Phong Bui
DONALD MOFFETT Any Fallow Field
By Phong Bui

Critics Page

James Baldwin and the Present, Nettle Danger"> We Pluck this Flower Safely:
James Baldwin and the Present, Nettle Danger
Guest Critic: Rich Blint
“A House Built on Bondage Cannot Stand”
By Chris Winks
Each of Us Contains the Other: James Baldwin’s Steadfast Morality
By Claudia Roth Pierpont
The General is in the House
By Patricia Spears Jones
Courting the End of the World: Heeding James Baldwin’s Invitation to take up a Dangerous Morality
By James T. Roane
The Victory Not Yet Won
By John Keene
“Love is a Growing Up”
By Erica Hunt
The Seer: James Baldwin and the (Death) Mask in Immarginations
By Tracie Morris

Books

Writing Outside Time
By Joshua Alvarez
Kafka’s Konundrum: Narcissism, Self-Surveillance, and Unreality
By Christine Cheon
Little Moments CHARLES BOCK in conversation with Joseph Salvatore
Melissa Yancy’s Exacting, Precise World
By Weston Cutter
There’s No Place Like Time, or The Art of Trash Diaries, Curiosity Cabinets, & Determined Noticing LANCE and ANDI OLSEN in conversation with Renée E. D’Aoust
Deep Monstrosity
By Weston Cutter
Selling Our Cities
By Artie Niederhoffer
From the Ground Up
By Hilary Reid
All the Furious Living and all the Furious Dying
By Tony Leuzzi
Down on the Cutting Room Floor
By John Madera
NOTHING IN, NOTHING OUT T.C. BOYLE with Catherine LaSota
Medical Cultures
By Brian O'Doherty
Day In, Day Out
By Sara Roffino

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Diary of a Mad Composer
By George Grella
Read the Label
By Marshall Yarbrough
Trust in the Label(s)
By George Grella
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Family as a Battlefield nora chipaumire at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
By Ivan Talijancic
STEVEN MELENDEZ with Gillian Jakab
I Want to Tell You Some Things
By Erica Getto
Grand, Pleasurable, and Accessible
By Susan Yung

Film

TRINH T. MINH-HA with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa & Patricia Alvarez
HERE’S TO THE CRAZY ONES Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama
By Steve Macfarlane
DO YOUR OWN STYLE: On John Wilson
By Dan Sullivan
RED AGAIN On Owen Hatherley’s The Chaplin Machine
By Celluloid Liberation Front

Theater

THE REST I MAKE UP: MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS Michelle Memran with Katie Pearl
THE SOL PROJECT JACOB PADRÓN with John Michael DiResta
FACING JUDGEMENT DAY Doomocracy Comes to the Brooklyn Army Terminal
By Andi Stover
Sounding Like Qui Nguyen: Vietgone
By Trista Baldwin

Fiction

Flick
by Raymond Roussel, translated from the French by FedraÂ RodrÃguezÂ Hinojosa
inSerial: parts one & two Delusions of Being Observed
By Lewis Warsh
an extract from Martutene
by Ramon Saizabitoria, translated from the Basque by Aritz Branton. Out now from Hispabooks Publishing.
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 2: The Oilbird: Negrisis Giganticus
By Sid Gershgoren
an extract from Memoirs of a Polar Bear
by Yoko Tawada, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky. Out next month from NEWÂ DIRECTIONS.
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley

Poetry

Dropout Poem
By Camilo Roldán
Four
By Joanna Fuhrman
Four
By Bianca Stone
from Maybe the Sweet Honey Pours
By Paolo Javier
Four
By Jessica Fiorini

Verbatim

RICHARD DIEBENKORN: From Russia with Love

Art Books

Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
By Alexandra Fowle
Bruce Davidson: Survey
By Zack Hatfield

Special Report

SPECIAL REPORT Dispatches from the Campaign
By David Levi Strauss

Field Notes

The Republicans Have Been Trumped
By Charlie Post
Labor Costs and the Life of the Mind
By Samuel Feldblum
We Are Not in Possession of Power; We Are in Possession of the Government: The Long Goodbye of Social Democracy in Latin America
By Matthew Whitley
Seizing Freedom: DAVID ROEDIGER with Peter St. Clair
On Time and a Half, Learning Disabilities, Secondary Gain, and the Business of Mental Health
By Jose A. Tapia

The Well

Rosemary’s Greenpoint Tavern
By Sara Christoph

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