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“Can you tell me a story?” Nin asks, invoking a ‘story game’ that she says they once played every night as kids. Instead of the usual stories about talking animals or flying carpets, Nin wants to hear true stories about her sister’s life outside of the room. Hui is reluctant. The world is disappointing and broken, she says. But Nin insists.

TO THE HEART OF IT: Gaza has been a free kill zone and a “concentration camp” (to quote Israel’s National Security Director Giora Eiland in 2004), long before October 7. In light of this, the most radical position comes directly from the simplest question: are Palestinians human beings? If your answer is emphatically yes, unambiguously and without reservations, then you are a lost cause to Zionism. Because if Palestinians are human beings, then their self-defense is legitimate, a...

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Getting your bike stolen seems to be an unfortunate right of passage for Vancouverites. But Project 529 is trying to change that.Originally piloted with the Vancouver Police Department before expanding worldwide and becoming the most successful program to combat bike theft, Project 529 encourages bike owners to register their bikes free of charge in a universal registration

To grant pregnant women the license to feel something, to be themselves in cinema: is it just too much to imagine?

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The US government has issued millions of dollars in fines to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon after an investigation found the nation's top wire...

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

When polymath Peter Nadin moved from New York more than thirty years ago to live at Old Field Farm, his rural property in the Catskill Mountains, he consciously left behind his role as a key figure in the city’s downtown art scene for a more contemplative lifestyle. Despite this, Nadin never stopped painting and two years ago had a debut exhibition at Off Paradise, The Distance From a Lemon to Murder.

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