The Brooklyn Rail is a political, artistic and literary magazine based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the...

. Coverage includes political and
literary essays, art criticism, interviews, original fiction and poetry, and reviews.

Started as a broadsheet

Broadsheet

Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet...

 in 1998, the Rail became a full publication in 2000, under the direction of publisher Phong Bui

Phong Bui

Phong Bui is an artist, writer, and independent curator. Phong is a graduate from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pa. He continued his post graduate studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture and studied independently with Nicolas Carone...

 and editor
Theodore Hamm

Theodore Hamm

Theodore Hamm is an American author, writer and thefounding editor of the New York City-based literary and culture tabloid The Brooklyn Rail.- Books :...

. Now a monthly journal, it covers arts and politics across New York City and around the world.

Articles have included interviews with Clare Short

Clare Short

Clare Short is a British politician, and a member of the Labour Party. She was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent. She...

 and James Longley

James Longley

James Longley is the name of:*James Longley , American documentary filmmaker*James B. Longley , former Governor of Maine*James B. Longley, Jr. , former U.S. Congressman from Maine...

 on the Iraq war, Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig which is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation...

 on presidents Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

 through George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

, and Wayne Barrett

Wayne Barrett

Wayne Barrett is an American journalist. He was an investigative reporter and senior editor for the Village Voice for over 20 years. He is currently a fellow with the Nation Institute and contributor to Newsweek....

 on Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani

Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani KBE is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York. He served as Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001....

. Interviews on the arts have featured Michael Brenson, John Reed

John Reed (novelist)

John Reed is an American novelist. He is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice , Snowball's Chance with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole , and All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare...

, David Levi-Strauss, Dore Ashton, Albert Maysles, Leo Steinberg

Leo Steinberg

Leo Steinberg was an American art critic and art historian and a naturalized citizen of the U.S.-Life:Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art...

, Elizabeth Murray

Elizabeth Murray

Elizabeth Murray may refer to:*Lady Elizabeth Murray, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Mansfield*Elizabeth Murray , American artist*Elizabeth Murray, wife of Edward Robbins and great-great grandmother to Franklin D. Roosevelt...

, Richard Serra

Richard Serra

Richard Serra is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.-Early life and education:...

 and Brice Marden

Brice Marden

Brice Marden , is an American artist, generally described as Minimalist, although his work defies specific categorization. He lives in New York and Eagles Mere.Marden is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery.-Life:...

.

The Rail commissioned a drawing by William Powhida

William Powhida

William Powhida is a visual artist and former art critic born in 1976 in New York. His work addresses the contemporary art industry.Topics have included creating an "enemies" list as well as letters addressed to contemporary curators , collectors and critics, requesting recognition...

 called How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality

How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality

How The New Museum Committed Suicide With Banality is a 2009 drawing on paper by William Powhida that the Brooklyn Rail commissioned for the cover of its November 2009 issue...

 for the cover of the November 2009 issue. The drawing featured caricatures of individuals involved in the controversial Skin Fruit

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection

In September, 2009 the New Museum announced a series of exhibitions entitled “The Imaginary Museum,” the first of which was curated by Jeff Koons from the collection of Dakis Joannou, who in addition to heavy collecting the work of Koons, is a trustee of the museum...

 exhibition at the New Museum, including Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....

.

Books

• In 2006, Hanging Loose Press published The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology, edited by Donald Breckenridge, the Rails 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
  Jonas Mekas
  Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.-Biography:...
  
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• Pieces of a Decade: Brooklyn Rail Nonfiction 2000-2010, October 2010.

See also

• Street literature
  Street literature
  Street literature or broadsides began in the 16th century and continued until the mid-19th century as a type of printing of large printed sheets of paper, designed to be plastered onto walls...
  
  
• List of New York City newspapers and magazines
• Media of New York City
  Media of New York City
  The media of New York City are internationally influential, and include some of the most important newspapers, largest publishing houses, most prolific television studios, and biggest record companies in the world...
  
  
• Underground press
  Underground press
  The underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations....