NOV 2006 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Fun While it Lasted...
– By Theodore Hamm

Local

Immigration Hysteria Hits Gotham
– By Gabriel Thompson
Sweat Equity Pays Off
– By Paula Crossfield
NYC's Big ReStore
– By Shelley Pasnik
The Chronicles of a Lost New York
– By Jen Itzenson
Art for Life: Starts Off with a Rush in Brooklyn
– By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

Picasso as Anti-Fascist
– By Dore Ashton
Middle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo
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Iraq in Fragments: James Longley with Williams Cole
Woodward at War
– By Nicholas Jahr
From Mexico City to Brooklyn: Carmen Boullosa
– By Alina Reyes
Remembering Brad Will
– By Kate Crane
Excerpt from The Uncomfortable Dead
– By Subcomandante Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Memories of Sontag: From an Ex-Pat’s Diary
– By Harriet Sohmers Zwerling

Art

ArtSeen

The Filipino Roots of Minimalism
– By Jim Long
Louise Bourgeois
– By Stephanie Buhmann
Raoul De Keyser
– By Shane McAdams
Charles Garabedian
– By Thomas Micchelli
Eva Zeisel at 100: A Lifetime of Masterwork in Design
– By Valery Oisteanu
Elizabeth Murray
– By Tomassio Longhi
Picasso and American Art
– By Ben La Rocco
Dennis Oppenheim
– By Chris Howard
Sam Easterson
– By Lynn Love
Joseph Kosuth
– By Matthew L. McAlpin
Joseph Kosuth – a labyrinth into which I can venture
– By Joan Waltemath
Report from London
– By Sherman Sam
Sean Scully
– By Craig Olson
Jessica Stockholder
– By Stephanie Buhmann
Brice Marden
– By Ben La Rocco
Alfred Jensen
– By Ben La Rocco
John Baldessari
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings from the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer
– By Hrag Vartanian
Stanley Whitney
– By John Yau
Mary Temple
– By Shane McAdams
George Schneeman
– By Eric Holzman

Books

POETRY: For the Fat of Mind
– By Carol Wierzbicki
FICTION: This Book
– By Sabrina Seelig
The New Psychedelia
– By Ellen Pearlman
CULTURE: Big girls on campus
– By Erica Wetter
Typecasting: A History of Stereotype
– By Maxwell Heller
POETRY: Act and Aftermath
– By William Corbett
FICTION: Inventing personal history
– By Eleanor J. Bader

Music

A Perpetual Geyser of Pus
– By Justin Taylor
James Angell: The Making of The Pandemic Symphony
– By Todd Simmons
Outernational: Rockin’ in the Unfree World
– By Matthew Ozga
Dimensions in Music: Soft Power: Jazz Meets the Subcontinent
– By Alan Lockwood
Moving Waves: Listening to Tony Conrad’s Early Minimalism
– By Drew Gardner
Gayle Force
– By Carol Wierzbicki

Dance

Wrestling Dostoyevsky: Betontac
– By Mathew Sandoval
Jeremy Nelson’s Accent Elimination and Mean Piece (premiere) at Dance Theater Workshop
– By Krista Miranda
Rags and Riches: Caitlin Cook at the Kitchen
– By Claudia La Rocco
The Particulars of Being Human: A review of MOB Production’s Mammal at Dance New Amsterdam
– By April Biggs

Film

The Brutal Futurism of Godard’s Past
– By David N. Meyer
A Royal Pain
– By Tessa DeCarlo
Old Fashioned Gore and Familiar Tropes: The 2006 NYC Horror Film Festival
– By David Wilentz
DOCS IN SIGHT
– By Williams Cole
KAWAII Unchained: Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
– By David Wilentz
DVD Culture
– By Matt Peterson
JIGOKU (Criterion Collection)
– By David Wilentz

Theater

Between the Lines: Light, Music, Theatre, Spirit
– By Lucas Benjaminh Krech
Brendan Connelly Clicks and Pops, Brendan Connelly with George Hunka
The Dramatist and The Designer
– By George Hunka
The Imperceptible Mutabilities of Susan-Lori Parks in 365 Plays And As Many Days Across The Whole Kingdom
– By Barbara Cassidy and Suzan-Lori Parks
The Five Sams Emerge from Samantha: Wicked Alchemy
– By Sheila Callaghan

Fiction

Lydie Salvayre with Yann Nicol, translated by Mireille Vignol
– By Yann Nicol and Lydie Salvayre
War Hammer
– By Susan Daitch

Poetry

The Transcendent Brow, Another Quiet Emergency
– By Corrine Fitzpatrick
A Thing Defined
– By Craig Morgan Teicher
After Richard Pryor
– By Roberto Tejada

LastWords

Staying Power
– By Lynn Crawford

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