The Brooklyn Rail

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The Brooklyn Rail
Editor	Theodore Hamm
Categories	politics, literature, popular culture
Frequency	10 per year
Publisher	Phong Bui
First issue	1998
Country	United States
Language	American English
Website	brooklynrail.org

Started as a broadsheet in 1998, The Brooklyn Rail became a full publication in the fall of 2000, under the direction of publisher Phong Bui and editor Theodore Hamm. Now a monthly journal, it covers arts and politics across New York City and around the world. Each issue features an array of political and literary essays, art criticism, in-depth interviews, original fiction and poetry, as well as film, music, dance, theater and book reviews.

Articles have included interviews with Clare Short and James Longley on the Iraq war, Robert Scheer on presidents Richard Nixon through George W. Bush, and Wayne Barrett on Rudy Giuliani. Interviews on the arts have featured Michael Brenson, John Reed, David Levi-Strauss, Dore Ashton, Albert Maysles, Leo Steinberg, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Serra and Brice Marden.

In 2006, Hanging Loose Press published The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology, edited by Donald Breckenridge, the Rail's fiction editor. The Brooklyn Rail / Black Square Editions is also publishing forthcoming original work by Franck Andre Jamme, Pierre Reverdy, Jean Freman and Jonas Mekas. The Rail is based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.