MAY 2012

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Watchin’ the Detectives—And the Rest of the Officers, Too
By Eleanor J. Bader
REPORT CARD On Hakeem Jeffries
By Liza Featherstone
Alias Anonymous
By Robin Grearson

Express

SONG OF OURSELVES ABBIE HOFFMAN with Abbie Hoffman
A Mother’s Days
By Joan McClure
THE “LEADERLESS REVOLUTION” CARNE ROSS with Nikolas Kozloff
Barack In A Weary Land
By Michael Terry
I Wish You Love
By Barbara Browning
ARTS AND LETTERS A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
Beautiful, Forever
By Orli Van Mourik
Crime by the Numbers
By Vincent Rossmeier
URBAN COMBUSTION: When Morality & Politics Mix
By David Rosen
Graphic Uprising
By Eric Triantafillou

Art

NARI WARD with Phong Bui
LIAM GILLICK with William Corwin
ALAIN KIRILI with Robert C. Morgan
IN MEMORIAM
FROM METAPHYSICS TO INVECTIVE: Art Criticism as if it Still Matters*
By David Levi Strauss

ArtSeen

JACKIE SACCOCCIO Portraits
By David Rhodes
YUJI AGEMATSU
By Roger Van Voorhees
BARRY X BALL Matthew Barney / Barry X Ball Dual-Dual Portrait
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR Not Known To Be Used By Any Form Of Life
By Jen Schwarting
ANDY COOLQUITT Chair w/Paintings
By Stephanie Buhmann
STEPHANIE DODES & MARSHALL KORSHAK We Buy Gold
By Eve Perry
JONG OH
By Robert C. Morgan
GERMAN STEGMAIER
By David Rhodes
IRINA KORINA Demonstrative Behavior
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
NATALIE CZECH I Have Nothing to Say, Only to Show
By Charles Schultz
Bound: HANS BELLMER and UNICA ZÜRN
By Valery Oisteanu
CHARLES MCGILL Trapped
By Dan Tarnowski
ALEJANDRA PRIETO Invisible Dust
By Greg Lindquist
Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now
By Jonathan Goodman
Nose Bleed
By David St.-Lascaux

Books

Letters from Robots
By Lizzy Acker
ARACELIS GIRMAY with Melinda Cardozo
JONATHAN GALASSI with Adam Fitzgerald
Just Try Quitting Hollywood
By Justin Courter
Life is Crappy, But What Are You Going to Do, Right?
By Paul Charles Griffin
Chaos, Control
By Bernard Lumpkin
Space Oddity
By Michael Spurgeon
Minding the Gap
By Chris Campanioni
Here Comes A Regular
By Michael Makowski
Plaisir, Pain
By John Cotter
Steel Driving Man
By David Varno
Games of France
By Jon Dozier-Ezell
It's All in Your Head
By Chris Campanioni

Music

The Meaning of the Village
By George Grella
SILENT MUSIC: Craig Shepard’s “On Foot: Brooklyn” Project
By Beth O'Brien
Bond’s Last Bandstand
By Logan K. Young
EARLY MUSIC: That Other Music Revival
By Geoffrey Clarfield
MIRACULOUS AGITATION Scroungings Toward a New Acoustic Synthesis
By Dan Wilson
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

The New Millennium Minstrel Show
By Tanya Jayani Fernando
JOHN JASPERSE with Aaron Mattocks
Stuck On You
By Evan Namerow

Film

A scene from The Color Wheel, a screenplay
By Carlen Altman and Alex Ross Perry
SHOCK OPERA: The First North American Film Retrospective of Werner Schroeter
By Mónica Savirón
HISTORY IN THE MAKING: Adam Curtis at e-flux
By Tom McCormack
Spaces of Capital
By Joshua K. Leon

Theater

At Wrest in the Middle of Time with Will Eno
By Ben Gassman
ACCORDIONS IN THE ARCTIC: Cynthia Hopkins Sails Ahead
By Michelle Memran
Noor Theatre Blazes New Light: Food and Fadwa at NYTW
By Ginny Mohler
LENORA CHAMPAGNE and LIZZIE OLESKER with Claire MacDonald

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
Arrow Canyon
By Pamela Ryder
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Tree Roots and Trunks
By Clayton Eshleman
Five
By Noah Eli Gordon
All I want is to be in a band
By Thom Donovan
Three
By Gillian Conoley

Art Books

Living as Form
By Wendy Vogel
Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation
By Natasha Stagg

LastWords

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

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MAY 2012

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T. Motley is a core contributor to Cartozia Tales, a fantasy mapjam comic for all ages: cartozia.com. He blogs at cartooniologist.blogspot.com and yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com

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MAY 2012

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe now

Local

Watchin’ the Detectives—And the Rest of the Officers, Too
By Eleanor J. Bader
REPORT CARD On Hakeem Jeffries
By Liza Featherstone
Alias Anonymous
By Robin Grearson

Express

SONG OF OURSELVES ABBIE HOFFMAN with Abbie Hoffman
A Mother’s Days
By Joan McClure
THE “LEADERLESS REVOLUTION” CARNE ROSS with Nikolas Kozloff
Barack In A Weary Land
By Michael Terry
I Wish You Love
By Barbara Browning
ARTS AND LETTERS A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
Beautiful, Forever
By Orli Van Mourik
Crime by the Numbers
By Vincent Rossmeier
URBAN COMBUSTION: When Morality & Politics Mix
By David Rosen
Graphic Uprising
By Eric Triantafillou

Art

NARI WARD with Phong Bui
LIAM GILLICK with William Corwin
ALAIN KIRILI with Robert C. Morgan
IN MEMORIAM
FROM METAPHYSICS TO INVECTIVE: Art Criticism as if it Still Matters*
By David Levi Strauss

ArtSeen

JACKIE SACCOCCIO Portraits
By David Rhodes
YUJI AGEMATSU
By Roger Van Voorhees
BARRY X BALL Matthew Barney / Barry X Ball Dual-Dual Portrait
By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR Not Known To Be Used By Any Form Of Life
By Jen Schwarting
ANDY COOLQUITT Chair w/Paintings
By Stephanie Buhmann
STEPHANIE DODES & MARSHALL KORSHAK We Buy Gold
By Eve Perry
JONG OH
By Robert C. Morgan
GERMAN STEGMAIER
By David Rhodes
IRINA KORINA Demonstrative Behavior
By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
NATALIE CZECH I Have Nothing to Say, Only to Show
By Charles Schultz
Bound: HANS BELLMER and UNICA ZÜRN
By Valery Oisteanu
CHARLES MCGILL Trapped
By Dan Tarnowski
ALEJANDRA PRIETO Invisible Dust
By Greg Lindquist
Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now
By Jonathan Goodman
Nose Bleed
By David St.-Lascaux

Books

Letters from Robots
By Lizzy Acker
ARACELIS GIRMAY with Melinda Cardozo
JONATHAN GALASSI with Adam Fitzgerald
Just Try Quitting Hollywood
By Justin Courter
Life is Crappy, But What Are You Going to Do, Right?
By Paul Charles Griffin
Chaos, Control
By Bernard Lumpkin
Space Oddity
By Michael Spurgeon
Minding the Gap
By Chris Campanioni
Here Comes A Regular
By Michael Makowski
Plaisir, Pain
By John Cotter
Steel Driving Man
By David Varno
Games of France
By Jon Dozier-Ezell
It's All in Your Head
By Chris Campanioni

Music

The Meaning of the Village
By George Grella
SILENT MUSIC: Craig Shepard’s “On Foot: Brooklyn” Project
By Beth O'Brien
Bond’s Last Bandstand
By Logan K. Young
EARLY MUSIC: That Other Music Revival
By Geoffrey Clarfield
MIRACULOUS AGITATION Scroungings Toward a New Acoustic Synthesis
By Dan Wilson
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

The New Millennium Minstrel Show
By Tanya Jayani Fernando
JOHN JASPERSE with Aaron Mattocks
Stuck On You
By Evan Namerow

Film

A scene from The Color Wheel, a screenplay
By Carlen Altman and Alex Ross Perry
SHOCK OPERA: The First North American Film Retrospective of Werner Schroeter
By Mónica Savirón
HISTORY IN THE MAKING: Adam Curtis at e-flux
By Tom McCormack
Spaces of Capital
By Joshua K. Leon

Theater

At Wrest in the Middle of Time with Will Eno
By Ben Gassman
ACCORDIONS IN THE ARCTIC: Cynthia Hopkins Sails Ahead
By Michelle Memran
Noor Theatre Blazes New Light: Food and Fadwa at NYTW
By Ginny Mohler
LENORA CHAMPAGNE and LIZZIE OLESKER with Claire MacDonald

Fiction

The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
By Mario Benedetti
Arrow Canyon
By Pamela Ryder
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Tree Roots and Trunks
By Clayton Eshleman
Five
By Noah Eli Gordon
All I want is to be in a band
By Thom Donovan
Three
By Gillian Conoley

Art Books

Living as Form
By Wendy Vogel
Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation
By Natasha Stagg

LastWords

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

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