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The Brooklyn Rail provides an independent forum for arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and far beyond.
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It was founded in October 2000 and currently published 10 times annually.

29/04/2026

Our May 2026 issue is LIVE! Read the issue now through the link in our bio and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with JoAnne Akalaitis, Sedrick Chisom, Hayes Greenfield, and Sky Hopinka.

☞ Duchamp Now—A Critics Page edited by Thierry de Duve.

☞ Matthew Spellberg—How Else Could You Get Out: William Kent and the Zipper.

☞ In ArtSeen, Alfred Mac Adam on Ellsworth Kelly; Neil Baldwin on Paul Klee. In Architecture, Nile Greenberg with Bruther. In Books, Hannah Burns on Annakeara Stinson’s Nerve Damage. In Fiction, Luke Goebel from Kill Dick. In Field Notes, Caleb Fridell Baseball is Back.

☞ In Theater, Brittani Samuel with Beto O’Byrne & Meropi Peponides. In Film, Alexander Mooney on Isiah Medina’s Gangsterism. In Art Books, Bill Kartalopoulos on Kim Deitch’s How I Make Comics. In Poetry, Reginald Shepherd two poems. In Music, Kevin Ng Vox Artificialis. In Dance, Miya Shaffer Maya Man’s StarPower, and much more!

Issue #304 of The Brooklyn Rail

01/04/2026

Our April 2026 issue is LIVE! Read the issue online now and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with April Gornik, Dorothea Rockburne, Mike Cloud & Nyeema Morgan, and Václav Požárek.

☞ Director's Series—Padmanabh Singh & Noelle Kadar.

☞ Visible Read—A Critics Page edited by Erica Hunt.

☞ In ArtSeen, Alex Bacon on Cinga Samson; Barbara MacAdam on David Novros. In Field Notes, Gabriel Meier Prison and Port. In Books, Caroline Shannon on Darcey Steinke’s This Is the Door. In Fiction, Antoine Volodine from The Monroe Girls. In Architecture, Stephen Zimmerer Animating Form.

☞ In Art Books, Megan N. Liberty on Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s SHOOT. In Film, Dylan Adamson Kevin Walker & Jack Auen’s Chronovisor. In Dance, Neil Baldwin Kinesthetic Conversations. In Theater, Paul David Young with James Clements. In Music, Jillian Marshall Economies of the Underground. In Poetry, James Loop two poems from Metronome, and much more!

Issue #303 of The Brooklyn Rail

05/11/2025

Our November 2025 issue is LIVE! Read the issue online now and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with El Anatsui, Katherine Bradford, Guerrilla Girls, and Paul Sietsema.

☞ Director's Series—Min Jung Kim.

☞ The World Before Racism: An Art Story—A Critics Page edited by Lisa E. Farrington.

☞ In ArtSeen, Eana Kim on Lee Yong Deok. In Art + Tech, Mark Amerika on Lynn Hershman Leeson. In Architecture, Nile Greenberg with Frida Escobedo. In Film, Damiano Panattoni on Gianfranco Rosi’s Below the Clouds. In Fiction, Wiesław Myśliwski from Needle's Eye. In Poetry, Hirata Toshiko, trans. Sawako Nakayasu Rabbit.

☞ In Books, Claire Phillips with Jonathan Lethem. In Dance, Emma Fiona Jones Keeping Time. In Theater, Emily Chackerian Theater for the People. In Music, Sydney Minor Horror Arias. In Art Books, Nicole Kaack on The Scores Project. In Field Notes, Erick Corrêa Howls for Sanguinetti, and much more!

The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.

01/10/2025

Our October 2025 issue is LIVE! Read the issue online now and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with Sophie Calle, Lisa Corinne Davis, Ann Hamilton, and Roman Ondak.

☞ The Tyranny of Certainty—A Critics Page edited by Erroll McDonald.

☞ Joan Kee: Why Art History Must Leave Home.

☞ In ArtSeen, Saul Ostrow on Lawrence Weiner; Bradley King on Kevin McNamee-Tweed. In Architecture, Francesca Pietropaolo with Jean Nouvel. In Film, D.Z. Stone with Robert Kaplow & Richard Linklater. In Fiction, Mark Doten from Whites. In Poetry, Amid These Words I Can Know for Alice Notley.

☞ In Books, Mandana Chaffa with Donika Kelly. In Dance, Miya Shaffer with evan ray suzuki. In Theater, Scott T. Cummings with Naomi Wallace. In Music, George Grella on TIME:SPANS. In Art Books, Karen Gu on Denise Scott Brown’s Encounters. In Field Notes, Chris Hartmann Commercial Vehicle Idling is Social Murder, and much more!

Issue #258 of The Brooklyn Rail

03/09/2025

Our September 2025 issue is LIVE! Read the issue online now and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with Ann Craven, Tom Friedman, Allen Jones, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn.

☞ On Nicolas Poussin—A Critics Page edited by Klaus Ottmann.

☞ In ArtSeen, Saul Ostrow on Alan Saret; Nolan Kelly on Lisa Yuskavage. In Fiction, Tate Gieselmann Prey. In Art Books, Karen Chernick on Too Good to Get Married. In Books, Tony Leuzzi with Joan Larkin. In Architecture, Nile Greenberg with SO–IL.

☞ In Music, Ondrej Veselý with Viktoriia Vitrenko. In Film, Charles Switzer 90s Q***r Cinema. In Dance, Vera Carothers with Asamblea Desviada. In Field Notes, Jamie Merchant The Su***de State. In Theater, Douglas Corzine with Julio Torres. In Poetry, Kevin Killian from PADAM PADAM, and much more.

Issue #257 of The Brooklyn Rail

04/06/2025

Our June 2025 issue is LIVE! Read the issue online now and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with Rosa Barba, Jason Fox, Tom Otterness, and Takako Yamaguchi.

☞ Jack Whitten’s Abstract Becomings, a Critics Page edited by Eana Kim.

☞ 1x1: Rosalind Jana on Eleanor Antin.

☞ In ArtSeen, Joseph Akel on Bill Jensen. In Books, Mandana Chaffa with Ocean Vuong. In Fiction, Mo Ogrodnik from Gulf. In Architecture, Jessica Ngan The Body Electric. In Art Books, Chelsea Davis on Naomi Falk’s The Surrender of Man. In Music, Scott Gutterman Spiritual Emergencies.

☞ In Film, Christopher Aaron Blackmon on Stephen Winter’s Chocolate Babies. In Dance, Matt Weinstock with Bettie de Jong. In Field Notes, Gary Roth Higher Education in Retreat. In Theater, Shonni Enelow with Lucien Zayan. In Poetry, Dante Micheaux "Under the Rubble". Dispatch 70, David Levi Strauss Seeing Stones of Surveillance, and much more!

Issue #255 of The Brooklyn Rail

02/04/2025

Our April 2025 issue is LIVE! Read it online now and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with Lisa Alvarado, Ed Bowes, Tyler Mitchell, and Amanda Williams.

☞ Director's Series: Madeleine Grynsztejn.

☞ Poetry is Not a Luxury, a Critics Page edited by Pamela Sneed ().

☞ In ArtSeen, Eana Kim on Ai Weiwei; Yvonne Owens on Rachel Feinstein. In Books, Joseph Albernaz on Nora Treatbaby’s Our Air; Meghan Racklin on Lynne Tillman’s Thrilled to Death. In Film, Jadie Stillwell Long Live Film Restoration. In Architecture, Nile Greenberg with Petra Blaisse. In Field Notes, Rolando Astarita Milei, Trump, and the Lumpenbourgeoisie.

☞ In Music, George Grella The Art of the Fail. In Fiction, Marie-Helene Bertino “The Ecstasy of Sam Malone.” In Art Books, Thomas Waller on Irene V. Small’s The Organic Line. In Poetry, Charles Bernstein “Ocular Truth and the Irreparable [Veil].” In Theater, Lily Goldberg with Leegrid Stevens. In Dance, Hannah Lipman Notes on Tenderness and Time, and much more!

Issue #253 of The Brooklyn Rail

05/03/2025

Our March 2025 issue is LIVE! Read the issue now through the link in our bio and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Catherine Goodman, Lucio Pozzi, and Sin Wai Kin.

☞ The Irving Sandler Essay: Adania Shibli Treading Between Snow and Fire.

☞ Pictures, Windows, Portals, Lives, a Critics Page edited by Omar Kholeif.

☞ In ArtSeen, Alfred Mac Adam on Cy Twombly; Tom McGlynn on Raoul De Keyser. In Books, Madison Ford on Fernando A. Flores’s Brother Brontë. In Music, Andrew Weathers Music Made by Walking. In Architecture, Nile Greenberg with Tony Fretton. In Field Notes, Ana V. Diez Roux Public Health Under Trump.

☞ In Film, Brittany Turner on Catherine Gund’s Meanwhile. In Fiction, Antonio di Benedetto from The Su***des. In Dance, Candice Thompson with Malcolm-x Betts & Arien Wilkerson. In Poetry, Ronaldo V. Wilson from Refuge Whimsy: Portraits. In Art Books, Zach Ritter on TR Ericsson’s Ni****ne. In Theater, Theresa Buchheister with Chad Kaydo, and much more!

Issue #252 of The Brooklyn Rail

29/01/2025

Our February 2025 issue is LIVE! Read the issue online now and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with Paolo Colombo, David Diao, Karen Brooks Hopkins, and Jacqueline Humphries.

☞ The Return of the Goddess, a Critics Page edited by Eleanor Heartney.

☞ In ArtSeen, Mark Van Proyen on Amy Sherald; Kate Brock on Sheila Fell. In Books, Mandana Chaffa with Aria Aber. In Music, George Grella with Thurston Moore. In Architecture, Florian Idenburg Echo Chamber. In Field Notes, Phil A. Neel Quarter-Pounds of Flesh, Part II.

☞ In Film, Alexandra Jhamb Burns on Hannah Peterson’s The Graduates. In Fiction, Yaroslav Trofimov from No Country for Love. In Dance, Nell Breyer with Okwui Okpokwasili & Katherine Profeta. In Poetry, Jay Gao Bark, archive, splinter. In Art Books, Daniella Sanader on Magali Duzant’s La vie is like that. In Theater, Kyle Turner with Jerry Lieblich & Paul Lazar, and much more!

Issue #251 of The Brooklyn Rail

30/10/2024

Our November 2024 issue is LIVE! Read the issue now online and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with Mel Bochner, Sonia Boyce, Bruce Nauman, and Haim Steinbach.

☞ EARLY / MODERN / ITALY—A Critics Page edited by Natalie Prizel.

☞ Director's Series—Laurent Le Bon.

☞ Lyle Rexer Following Franne Davids.

☞ In ArtSeen, Amanda Gluibizzi on Scott Burton. In Books, Mandana Chaffa on Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. In Fiction, Diana McCaulay "Picking Crabs in Negril". 1 x 1, Yayoi Shionoiri on Genpei Akasegawa. In Architecture, Ayesha Ghosh with Tei Carpenter. In Art Books, Nate Mickelson on Aruna D’Souza’s Imperfect Solidarities.

☞ In Poetry, Imani Elizabeth Jackson from FLAG. In Field Notes, Paul Mattick Re-reading Capital. In Music, Max Keller on Beverly Glenn-Copeland. In Theater, Brian Scott Lipton with Dominique Morisseau. In Film, Frank Falisi on Vito A. Rowlands’s Ovid, New York. In Dance, Dylan Sherman with Alexa West, and much more!

Issue #249 of The Brooklyn Rail

02/10/2024

Our October 2024 issue is LIVE! Read the issue online now and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with Leilah Babirye, Robert Longo, Pepón Osorio, and Walter Price.

☞ Surrealism’s Centenary—A Critics Page edited by Ara H. Merjian.

☞ In Memoriam—A Tribute to Richard Serra (1938–2024).

☞ Irving Sandler Essay—Sara Nadal-Melsió Tombarolian Crossings.

☞ In ArtSeen, William Corwin on Paul Anthony Smith; Joseph Akel on Anthony Cudahy. In Fiction, Bijan Stephen "Years and Years". In Books, James Yu with Tony Tulathimutte. 1 x 1, Lee Ann Norman on Pope.L. In Architecture, Nile Greenberg with Peter Zumthor.

☞ In Poetry, Nat Raha from apparitions (nines). In Field Notes, John Clegg with Jamie Merchant. In Art Books, Naomi Elias on Freddy Carrasco’s GLEEM. In Music, Adolf Alzuphar on Syto Cavé. In Theater, Andrew R. Butler with Dakota Rose & Christopher Ford. In Film, Rebecca Turner on Basma al-Sharif’s Deep Sleep. In Dance, Jessie L. Morris An Unlikely Inheritance.

Issue #248 of The Brooklyn Rail

28/08/2024

Our September 2024 issue is LIVE! Read the issue online now and pick up a free print copy at your local distributor today.

☞ Featuring interviews with Georges Adéagbo, Matt Dillon, Alexandre Lenoir, and Charles Ross.

☞ Abstraction Now—A Critics Page edited by Phyllis Tuchman.

☞ In Memoriam—Raymond Foye: A Tribute to Neeli Cherkovski (1945–2024)

☞ Architecture—Michael Abel & Nile Greenberg with Elizabeth Diller & Ricardo Scofidio.

☞ In ArtSeen, Richard Shiff on Frank Stella; Natalia Gierowska on Sean Scully. In Books, Charlotte Shane with Annie Lou Martin. In Fiction, Ryan Chapman The Audacity. In Poetry, Rae Armantrout “TIRED LIGHT THEORY”; Sawako Nakayasu “Comme ci, comme ça”.

☞ In Field Notes, Jasper Bernes Fascism Late, Early; Fascists Now, Then. In Art Books, Jennie Waldow on The Fluxus Newspaper. In Music, Walker Mimms Cost and Value. In Theater, Matthew Freeman with Kenneal Patterson. In Film, Payton McCarty-Simas on Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance. In Dance, Robbie Saenz de Viteri Is Imitation a Form of Flattery?

Issue #247 of The Brooklyn Rail

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