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Table of Contents
Editor's Letter

LOCAL
Eliminating the Middlewoman:
Elizabeth Seton Closes its Doors
by Marjory Garrison
Symbols and the City
by Williams Cole

EXPRESS
Beyond Civil Rights
by Theodore Hamm
How Corporations Stole Our Identities
by Sarah Stodola
Every Dog Has His Day:
G. W. Bush Addresses the UN
by Alan Gilbert
Letter From Palestine:
Everyday Adventure of Commuting
by Rob Eshelman
War as a Way of Life: The Dupes
by Heather Rogers
Decades of Resistance: Chiapas
by Andrew Grant Wood, Photos by Mara Catalan

ART
Artseen:
Larry Mullins/Joe Amrhein
Black Belt
My People Were Fair and Had Cum in Their Hair (But Now They're Content to Spray Stars From Your Boughs)
Salvador Dali's "Dream of Venus"
Ingrid Calame
Evan Lintermans
Joe Fig
Andrea Belag
one-on-one
Jason Middlebrook
Franko B/Damien Hirst

To Philip Guston
various essays
Philip Guston in Retrospect
by William Corbett
Poetic Justice: The Istanbul Biennial
by Gregory Volk
Processing Space
by Daniel Baird
in conversation: Nancy Spero
with Stephanie Buhmann
Life at the VSC
by Ellen Pearlman

BOOKS
Paul Krugman’s The Great Unraveling
review by Alan Lockwood
Tariq Ali’s Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq
review by Mridu Chandra
Paul Mattick’s Art in Its Time
review by Daniel Baird
Tulsa Race Riot
review by Tia Blassingame
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
review by Hirsh Sawhney

MUSIC
The Essex Green’s The Long Goodbye
review by Dann Baker
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man’s Out of Season
review by Todd Simmons
The Yodel that Ate Celluloid
by Bart Plantenga

THEATER
Len Jenkin, Like I Say
by Brook Stowe
in dialogue: Jim Strahs on Working
by Young Jean Lee

DANCE
Farewell to Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt
by Shanti Crawford
Cunningham Chances It
by Vanessa Manko
O’Connor’s Earthbound; STREB Takes Flight
by Vanessa Manko

FILM
Sylvia
review by Tess Taylor
Bubba Ho-Tep
review by Douglas Singleton
Outtakes: Charlotte Rampling Silent Upon a Peak at
by Galen Williams
What’s So Funny: The Schtick of Bill Murray and Jack Black
by Lisa Rosman
A Festival Pops Up in Brooklyn
by Williams Cole

FICTION
The Line on The Fight
by R. J. DeRose

STREETS
A Candy-Coated Crime Spree
by John Reed

POETRY
excerpt: Legion
by Craig Dworkin
Confession: Untitled
by Rachel Levitsky

LAST WORDS
Flying Solo
by Randolph Lewis, Ph.D.

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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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