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

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

This photobook presents a series of screenshots taken between 2015 and 2017 of frozen WhatsApp video calls with his family members at home in Gaza. The images approach a manner of depicting hell.

Kay WalkingStick is currently enjoying a moment of tremendous recognition, with multiple solo exhibitions and international group shows on the near horizon. If her stars have aligned, it’s not because WalkingStick has done anything different. As the artist says in the interview that follows, she hasn’t changed.

Sculptor Richard Hunt (1935–2023), who died in December at the age of eighty-eight, is honored with a comprehensive exhibition of his early works, currently on view at White Cube. Early Masterworks homes in on the artist’s output from 1955–1969, a fruitful decade that saw the young Hunt—later to become acclaimed for his large, public sculptures—testing, experimenting, and refining the distinctive style that would become his own.

The most intense recent experience I’ve had writing poetry was composing a piece called “People Without Names,” a long poem recently published in Eileen Myles’s Pathetic Literature anthology (Grove Press, 2023). I wrote it in January 2021, still living in Alphabet City during the endlessness of the global pause.

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

Though the book is marketed as a hybrid memoir and Crampton’s story serves as an anchor, her experiences make up a fairly small proportion of A Body Made of Glass. The book ranges comprehensively not only through the history of hypochondria, but also through hypochondria’s appearances in books and culture, from early modern literature to Woody Allen films to Jane Austen’s Mrs. Bennet (and Austen’s own mother). I found myself bringing up the book to nearly everyone I spoke to ...

I didn’t have full command of Spanish as an undergrad translating poems of Jorge Guillén. Still, I was surprised my versions “sounded” authoritative when published without the originals. What is the sound of authority? I discovered then and there that all commanding poems read as translations “after a lost original,” to quote a David Shapiro book title.

Our experience of—and existence in—nature is universal, if rarely identical. As part of her historic tenure as the 24th US Poet Laureate, Ada Limón commissioned some of the finest poets of our era to write to perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, in an anthology that is uniformly intimate, if diverse in subject matter. The collection also serves as a starting point for a National Parks project that comingles these literary offerings with poetic “exhibits” in sev...