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CITYNOTES Murphy’s Dissent
By Theodore Hamm
REPORT CARD “Education for Sale”
By Liza Featherstone
They Don’t Bake ’em Like They Used To
Creating a Groundswell in Brooklyn
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

Mitt Ain’t Got It
By Michael Terry
The Green Nuke Lovers Are Wrong
By Christian Parenti
The Hotel Tehran
By Matthew Igoe
THE ALBION NATION: Communes on the Mendocino Coast
By Cal Winslow
Some Rules for the Conduct of Young Gentlemen
By William Rossa Cole
CLASS NOTES: A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
Intervention that Works
By Vincent Rossmeier
Life Is Elsewhere
By Allen Wilcox
Another Prohibition: Uncovering the Real 1920s
By David Rosen

Art

ALEXANDER S. C. ROWER with Joost Elffers
JOHN NEWMAN with Phong Bui
JULIA KUNIN with Maria Elena González
Ice Makes Fire PAUL KOS with Jarrett Earnest
A Little Yes and a Big No?
By Dore Ashton
KATHERINE BRADFORD with Jason Stopa

ArtSeen

A LETTER TO PHILIP GUSTON from David Rhodes
A LETTER TO MARTIN MULLIN from Carter Ratcliff
A LETTER TO CINDY SHERMAN from Christopher Stackhouse
A LETTER TO MOIRA DRYER from David Rhodes
SONIA ALMEIDA The Angle of the Sun’s Rays
By Joan Waltemath
JESUS RAFAEL SOTO Soto: Paris and Beyond 1950–1970
By Robert C. Morgan
TAMARA GONZALES Untitled, An Exhibition of New Paintings
By Sharon L. Butler
A LETTER TO BRYAN OSBURN from Trevor Winkfield
DJUNA BARNES Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913 – 1919
By Joseph Klarl
LIONEL MAUNZ Receipt of Malice
By Charles Schultz
A LETTER TO ROBERT SMITHSON from Greg Lindquist
A LETTER TO RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN from Daniel Wiener
JOHN EVANS John Evans: 1984
By Valery Oisteanu
MICHIEL CEULERS Des Malentendus et le temps perdu
By Jonathan Goodman
MISSIVE TO FRANK O’HARA from Vincent Katz
WILLIAM ANTHONY Ironic Icons II
By Dan Tarnowski
AN OPEN LETTER ON THE SUBJECT OF RITUAL
By Kara L. Rooney
THEO A. ROSENBLUM & CHELSEA SELTZER Two Heads are Better than One
By Gail Quagliata
ALEX BAG AND PATTERSON BECKWITH Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows
By Eve Perry

Books

ALAN MOORE with Kathy Battista
Hold Me Now
By Shathley Q.
Divine Error
By Neale Bachmann Gold
Lotus Eaters for Public Consumption
By Gary Lain
Pompous Circumstance
By Tatiaana L. Laine
A Voodoo Doll’s House
By Jeff McConaghy
Listen Closely
By Laura Smith Terry
Size Matters
By Nava Renek
IN MEMORIAM On Barney Rosset
By Jim Feast
Narrative Fuel
By Angela Patrinos
Half in Speculation
By Chris Campanioni
In Like a Lion
By Ed Schad
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

Institutional Adjustments
By Andrew Cappetta
A Stageful of Toys
By David St.-Lascaux
BACK TO 1911 MOVEMENT Manifesto #3: “Music”
By Peter Lamborn Wilson
“Floating Above the Earth, Never Anchored to Time or Place”
By David Shirley
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
“I Want It! I Need It!”
By M. T. Richards

Dance

Oceanography
By Nancy Dalva
The Meaning of “Live”
By Sarah Maxfield
Mark Morris Versus The Music
By Ryan Wenzel

Film

L’ART LE PLUS POLITIQUE NICOLE BRENEZ with Donal Foreman
CARMELO BENE
By Troy Swain
WHIT STILLMAN’s Deranged Damsels
By Paul Felten
ALONE IN THE ZONE GEOFF DYER with Monica Westin

Theater

ET TU, BRAVO? Andi Stover’s Julie S. Caesar & The Real Housewives Of Trevi
By Jennifer Leeson
Chimichangas and Zoloft with Fernanda Coppel
By Cusi Cram
DANIEL FISH A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (After David Foster Wallace)
By Gary Winter

Fiction

Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
The Regulars
By Lily Hoang

Poetry

from Sonics
By Lee Ann Brown
Five
By Betsy Fagin
from Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt
By Matvei Yankelevich
from Box Score: An Autobiography
By Kevin Varrone

Art Books

Def Jam Recordings and Golf Wang
By Ashok Kondabolu
David Shrigley: Brain Activity
By Dan Nadel
The Present
By Adam Bell
Agnes Martin
By Courtney Fiske
The Future of Art: A Manual
By Joseph Teeling
Kusama, In Her Own Words
By Edward M. Gómez

LastWords

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

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APR 2012

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

CITYNOTES Murphy’s Dissent
By Theodore Hamm
REPORT CARD “Education for Sale”
By Liza Featherstone
They Don’t Bake ’em Like They Used To
Creating a Groundswell in Brooklyn
By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

Mitt Ain’t Got It
By Michael Terry
The Green Nuke Lovers Are Wrong
By Christian Parenti
The Hotel Tehran
By Matthew Igoe
THE ALBION NATION: Communes on the Mendocino Coast
By Cal Winslow
Some Rules for the Conduct of Young Gentlemen
By William Rossa Cole
CLASS NOTES: A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
Intervention that Works
By Vincent Rossmeier
Life Is Elsewhere
By Allen Wilcox
Another Prohibition: Uncovering the Real 1920s
By David Rosen

Art

ALEXANDER S. C. ROWER with Joost Elffers
JOHN NEWMAN with Phong Bui
JULIA KUNIN with Maria Elena González
Ice Makes Fire PAUL KOS with Jarrett Earnest
A Little Yes and a Big No?
By Dore Ashton
KATHERINE BRADFORD with Jason Stopa

ArtSeen

A LETTER TO PHILIP GUSTON from David Rhodes
A LETTER TO MARTIN MULLIN from Carter Ratcliff
A LETTER TO CINDY SHERMAN from Christopher Stackhouse
A LETTER TO MOIRA DRYER from David Rhodes
SONIA ALMEIDA The Angle of the Sun’s Rays
By Joan Waltemath
JESUS RAFAEL SOTO Soto: Paris and Beyond 1950–1970
By Robert C. Morgan
TAMARA GONZALES Untitled, An Exhibition of New Paintings
By Sharon L. Butler
A LETTER TO BRYAN OSBURN from Trevor Winkfield
DJUNA BARNES Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913 – 1919
By Joseph Klarl
LIONEL MAUNZ Receipt of Malice
By Charles Schultz
A LETTER TO ROBERT SMITHSON from Greg Lindquist
A LETTER TO RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN from Daniel Wiener
JOHN EVANS John Evans: 1984
By Valery Oisteanu
MICHIEL CEULERS Des Malentendus et le temps perdu
By Jonathan Goodman
MISSIVE TO FRANK O’HARA from Vincent Katz
WILLIAM ANTHONY Ironic Icons II
By Dan Tarnowski
AN OPEN LETTER ON THE SUBJECT OF RITUAL
By Kara L. Rooney
THEO A. ROSENBLUM & CHELSEA SELTZER Two Heads are Better than One
By Gail Quagliata
ALEX BAG AND PATTERSON BECKWITH Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows
By Eve Perry

Books

ALAN MOORE with Kathy Battista
Hold Me Now
By Shathley Q.
Divine Error
By Neale Bachmann Gold
Lotus Eaters for Public Consumption
By Gary Lain
Pompous Circumstance
By Tatiaana L. Laine
A Voodoo Doll’s House
By Jeff McConaghy
Listen Closely
By Laura Smith Terry
Size Matters
By Nava Renek
IN MEMORIAM On Barney Rosset
By Jim Feast
Narrative Fuel
By Angela Patrinos
Half in Speculation
By Chris Campanioni
In Like a Lion
By Ed Schad
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

Institutional Adjustments
By Andrew Cappetta
A Stageful of Toys
By David St.-Lascaux
BACK TO 1911 MOVEMENT Manifesto #3: “Music”
By Peter Lamborn Wilson
“Floating Above the Earth, Never Anchored to Time or Place”
By David Shirley
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
“I Want It! I Need It!”
By M. T. Richards

Dance

Oceanography
By Nancy Dalva
The Meaning of “Live”
By Sarah Maxfield
Mark Morris Versus The Music
By Ryan Wenzel

Film

L’ART LE PLUS POLITIQUE NICOLE BRENEZ with Donal Foreman
CARMELO BENE
By Troy Swain
WHIT STILLMAN’s Deranged Damsels
By Paul Felten
ALONE IN THE ZONE GEOFF DYER with Monica Westin

Theater

ET TU, BRAVO? Andi Stover’s Julie S. Caesar & The Real Housewives Of Trevi
By Jennifer Leeson
Chimichangas and Zoloft with Fernanda Coppel
By Cusi Cram
DANIEL FISH A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (After David Foster Wallace)
By Gary Winter

Fiction

Tragic Strip
By T. Motley
The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
The Regulars
By Lily Hoang

Poetry

from Sonics
By Lee Ann Brown
Five
By Betsy Fagin
from Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt
By Matvei Yankelevich
from Box Score: An Autobiography
By Kevin Varrone

Art Books

Def Jam Recordings and Golf Wang
By Ashok Kondabolu
David Shrigley: Brain Activity
By Dan Nadel
The Present
By Adam Bell
Agnes Martin
By Courtney Fiske
The Future of Art: A Manual
By Joseph Teeling
Kusama, In Her Own Words
By Edward M. Gómez

LastWords

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

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