The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• The Joy of Being Wrong

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• AWAAM Under Fire

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• ABC No Rio

  – By James Trimarco

• Charles Barron: Elected Activist

  – By Michael Charles Rundle

• History's Storyteller

  – By Conor Friedersdorf

• Urban Lines

  – By Jane Coffey

• And Nate Created A.D.A.M.

  – By Emma Rebhorn

• Idiotard 2008

  – By Michael Short

Express

• The God of My Grandparents

  – By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou

• Born in Africa

  – By Nadia Davids

• King's Legacy

  – By Theodore Hamm

• From Black Power to Barack Obama

  – By Peniel E. Joseph

• How We Torture: Alex Gibney with Williams Cole

• WEB EXCLUSIVE: Letter from New Orleans

  – By Peter Zinn

• An Immature Anti-Fascist

  – By Vincent Rossmeier

• Memories of SDS

  – By Nicholas Jahr

• A Case for Eco-Optimism

  – By Leigh Kamping-Carder

• Kites: A Memoir

  – By Jason Wachtelhausen

• Orhan Pamuk with Carol Becker

Art

• Chris Martin with Craig Olson

• Seton Smith with Eve Aschheim

• Yvonne Jacquette with John Yau

ArtSeen

• “I am not now nor have I ever been…”

  – By Mira Schor

• Miami Beach: Swimming in Pigment

  – By Sharon L. Butler

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Assistant

  – By Graham T. Beck

• Merlin James Paintings of Buildings

  – By John Yau

• Al Taylor Early Work

  – By John Yau

• Thomas Ruff

  – By John Yau

• Robert Jack Before and Aftermath

  – By Shane McAdams

• Ivin Ballen 50/50

  – By Lynn Crawford

• Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/ SANAA

  – By Benjamin Friedman

• Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century Collage: The Unmonumental Picture

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Anselm Kiefer: Paintings and Sculpture

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Brooklyn Dispatches Authentic Beauty, or The Real Phony

  – By James Kalm

• Katy Grannan

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Katy Grannan The Westerns

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Hugh Walton *UCKED

  – By Lauren Ross

• Julian Schnabel Navigation Drawings

  – By John Yau

• Behind the Seen

  – By Jillian Steinhauer

• Alberto Burri

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• Extending the Universe: Conceptual Art, Women, and the Structuralist Paradigm

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Frankenstein (Mortal Toys): a miniature spectacle

  – By Warren Fry

• Barry Le Va Voltage

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Richard Artschwager

  – By John Yau

• Love/War/Sex

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• Rackstraw Downes

  – By Greg Lindquist

• A Tribute to Michael Goldberg (1924—2008)

  – By Janet Coleman, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, and Lucio Pozzi

Books

• Geoff Dyer with Jed Lipinski

• Non-Fiction: You Are Neither Here Nor There

  – By Jed Lipinski

• Fiction: Oh The Stories They Could Write

  – By David Varno

• Eve Packer with Carol Wierzbicki

• Fiction: The Politics of the Afterlife

  – By Alexander Zaitchik

• Poetry: The Office is a Cruel Muse

  – By Jim Feast

• Nonfiction: American Ear Drums

  – By Meghan Roe

• Fiction: Sex as Subversion

  – By Rachel Balik

• Poetry Roundup

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• Prose Roundup

  – By Dan Fall, Renée E. D'Aoust, Mia Eaton, and Matt Everett

Music

• Cello Visions: New Work by Jean Jeanrenaud, Matt Haimovitz, and Wendy Sutter

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Hank Williams in a Minor Key Brooklyn's Lucinda Black Bear Goes where the Grunions Run

  – By Dare Dukes

• First Thought, Best Thought: Baby Dee Returns to Her Music

  – By Katy Henriksen

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Brought to You by the Letter G

  – By Grant Moser

Dance

• David Parsons Dance at the Joyce Theater

  – By April Greene

• Act Now: A Variety Show Review

  – By April Greene

• Virginie Marchand's Telegram

  – By Ben Tripp

• Not The Same Solo, Adaptations of Deborah Hay's Solo News

  – By Carley Petesch

Film

• Not Much Middle Ground

  – By David N. Meyer

• Ebony and Ivory

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Dawn of Japanese Animation

  – By David Wilentz

• Close Your Eyes and Think of England

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• Depilatory as Metaphor

  – By Sarah Kessler

• This "Dream" is a Nightmare

  – By Sophie Gilbert

• Juno: A City in Alaska

  – By John Oursler

• Radio On

  – By Rudy Wurlitzer

• Everybody Gets Screwed

  – By Jesi Khadivi

• Painter at Work

  – By Josh Morgenthau

Theater

• Red Monkey in the Middle: Between Two Worlds with Catherine Filloux

• Acts of Cruelty

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Caridad Svich with Eliza Bent

• DON'T F#@! WITH the stageFARM

  – By Trish Harnetiaux

• Excerpt from "Killing the Boss"

  – By Catherine Filloux

Fiction

• Excerpts from "Autonauts of the Cosmoroute"

  – By Julio Cortazár and Carol Dunlop

• Elk Sleeps With His Own Wife By Mistake

  – By Ted Pelton

• The Pain Machain

  – By Yuriy Tarnawsky

• A Surchild

  – By Yuriy Tarnawsky

• Excerpts from "The Searchers"

  – By Nicholas Bredie

Poetry

• Update 2003

  – By Jonas Mekas

• Manatee/Humanity

  – By Anne Waldman

• Necropolis

  – By Christopher Y. Lew

• Return

  – By Christopher Y. Lew

• Watermelons

  – By Christopher Y. Lew

• After A Self-Portrait by Francis Picabia

  – By John Yau

• Poetic Alliances

  – By Maxwell Heller