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LOCAL

Soldiers Bring the War Back Home 
by Aimee Molloy                                   

UNITY Loves Company: Ratner’s Limbo Provides Momentum 
by Brian J. Carreira

Writing New York City: Pete Hamill
in conversation  with Theodore Hamm

Dawn of a New “Neighborhood”? 
by Williams Cole               

Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Legacy 
by Theodore Hamm      

EXPRESS

New New Holland? 
by Peter Lamborn Wilson                                                           

Secession: A Five-Point Program 
by Jason Flores-Williams                                

Notes from September 11 
by Christopher Ketcham                                            

Journalists at Work 
by Christian Parenti                                                                       

Letter from Ecuador 
by Caitlin Dunklee                                                                     

Learning from Buster 
by Shelley Pasnik         

                                                           

ART

Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin 
by Daniel Baird                          

Powhida, Tim Hawkinson; Stillman, On the Subject of War; White, Noah Sheldon; Baird, Abby Leigh; Powhida, Jonathan Schipper and Simon Lee; Micchelli, Nin Brudermann; Kalm, John Walker; LaRocco, Pat Passlof; Morgan, Jin Soo Kim; Buhmann, Leon Polk Smith; LaRocco, Larry Webb and Bob Witz; Karapetian, John Szarkowsk; Oisteanu, Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)

Railing Opinion 
by Thomas Micchelli                                                                    

Reflections on the Last Sunspot Drawing 
by Jim Long                                       

Ellen Gallagher
in conversation  with Praxis                                                    

In Search of the Miraculous 
by Raphael Rubinstein                                         

in memoriam: Steve Parrino (1958–2004)                                                         

BOOKS

Off the Shelves  by Bookstaff:
de Zengotita, Mediated; Baumgardner and Richards, Grassroots; Duncan, Death of an Ordinary Man; Goldberg, Light Matters            

New Day at Hunter: Peter Carey
in conversation  with James McCloskey                

City of Women: Elizabeth Gaffney 
with Eleanor Bader                                     

excerpt from The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue                                                                       

MUSIC

Meadow House 
by Dave Mandl                                                                        

Bow Becomes Breath 
by Ellen Pearlman                                                                   

Honest is the Best Policy 
by Grant Moser                                                                           

DANCE

Back to the Future: RoseAnne Spraidlin’s Future Past 
by Nicole Pope               

Dancing on the Rail 
by Vanessa Manko                                                           

From the Bathhouse to the Bedroom 
by Claudia La Rocco                         

Young Choreographers: A New Generation 
by Jessica Weiss                 

                                         

THEATER

in dialogue: Jeffrey M. Jones 
with Sheila Callaghan and Jason Grote               

Ubu Goes Patamusical 
by David Kilpatrick                                                                   

Candide Returns to NYC: The Best of All Possible Worlds? 
by Emily DeVoti                    

 

FILM

The East(ern) and the Western 
by David N. Meyer                                                

Docs in Sight: Making a Piece of Political History Last 
by Williams Cole               

The Same Kind of Dick 
by Williams Cole                     

                                                                               

FICTION

Conversion in Connecticut
by Martha King   

Wanna hear my story
by Martha King   

Six Fables 
by Martha King                                                                                  

 

POETRY

Robert Frank Doesn’t Live Here Anymore 
by Brenda Coutlas                                  

Yeah 
by Alex Young                                                                                                

Poems for Jackson Mac Low: Staying 
by Anne Waldman                                           

An Imperfect Mesostic for Jackson Mac Low 
by Alison Knowles                                

Canvas 
by Alex Young                                  



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The Rail invites you to a reading with Jason
Flores-Williams and Brian Carreira, along with musical
guest Steve Strunsky of the Lonesome Prairie Dogs.

Thurs., Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m.
Vox Pop--Flatbush, Brooklyn
www.voxpop.net


OFF THE RAIL FALL 2005 at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library - Grand Army Plaza
(718) 230-2100 in the 2nd Floor Auditorium

Tuesday, Sept. 13 from 7 till 9
John Ashbery
Leslie Scalapino

Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 7 till 9
Kenneth Bernard
Lynda Schor

Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7 till 9
Diane Williams
Christine Schutt

Curated and hosted by the Rail's Fiction Editor Donald Breckenridge


The Independent Press Association-NY recently honored The Brooklyn Rail with the following awards:

1st place: Best article about Immigrant Issues or Racial Justice--Gabriel Thompson, "One Immigrant's Journey" (September 2004).

1st place: Best article about the Arts*--Amy Zimmer, "The Brownsville Rec. Center" (April 04)

2nd place: Best article about the Arts--Brian Carreira, "Harlem Arts: A Faux Renaissance" (Dec 03/Jan 04).

2nd place: Best editorial or commentary--T. Hamm, "The Issue is Free Speech" (Dec 03/Jan 04).

3rd Place: Best Investigative News Story--Marjory Garrison, "Minimum Matter of Survival" (May 04)

Honorable mention: Best Investigative News Story--Williams Cole, "Housing vs. the RNC" (June 04).

Honorable mention: Best Original Feature--Yvette Walton, "My Life in the NYPD" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
Come to the Brooklyn Waterfront Festival.





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