The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• It Tolls for…

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Displacement at Greenbelt

  – By Sarah Nelson Wright

• Big Hopes for a Slow Opera:

  – By Nathan Schneider

• The Brooklyn Young Mother’s Collective Counters Stereotypes About Teen Parenthood

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• When is a Gate Not a Gate?

  – By Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper

Express

• Arab-Americans Head for the Ballot Box

  – By Aparna Narayanan

• Branding New York

  – By Miriam Greenberg

• The Party of Michael Moore

  – By Theodore Hamm

• A Party of Frauds? Glenn Greenwald with Theodore Hamm

• A New China Syndrome

  – By Lucia Green-Weiskel

• Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib

  – By Ryan Hagen

• Russia’s Pepsi Generation Comes of Age

  – By Ashley Cleek

• China's Young and Restless

  – By Lu Chen

• Three Trillion and Counting

  – By Michael Busch

• Inventing the "Maverick"

  – By Katie Rolnick

• Compassionate Libertarianism?

  – By Judy Berman

• Potgieter’s Total Onslaught

  – By Alex Freedman

Art

• Tom Doyle with Phong Bui

• Simon Frost with John Yau

• Richard Shiff with Katy Siegel

• Dore Ashton’s Engagé—Art Criticism in the Face of Contemporary Tragedies

  – By David Craven

ArtSeen

• Abts’ Traction

  – By Sharon L. Butler

• Marie Sivak - Barbara Hatfield

  – By Becky Brown

• Brenda Goodman

  – By Lynn Crawford

• Whiting Tennis

  – By Shane McAdams

• Alice Kemp Madame Du Planchette de la Cloche

  – By Warren Fry

• Ryan Schneider One Dog Night

  – By Cora Fisher

• Lois Dodd Landscapes and Structures

  – By Greg Lindquist

• Earl Cunningham's America

  – By Craig Olson

• Elka Krajewska BOUND: a projected walkthrough by Elka Krajewska, light score by Anthony McCall, sound score by Bunita Marcus

  – By John Reed

• Laurent Ajina The Perfect Line?

  – By Jillian Steinhauer

• Jake Berthot

  – By John Yau

• Kanemitsu in California during the 1960s and 1970s

  – By John Yau

• Joe Brainard The Nancys

  – By John Yau

• Helen Miranda Wilson

  – By John Yau

• Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher The Searchers

  – By Cassandra Neyenesch

• Kim Dorland North

  – By James Kalm

• Fauxhemia: The Same Old Same Old New York School

  – By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

• Bien-U Bae

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Stephen Rosenthal 06—08 Paintings

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Meaning in Art

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Out of the Furnace: Martha Wilson's Feminist Critique

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• The Very Public Life of Street Art

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• Fresh Kills + Josh Azzarella

  – By Josh Morgenthau

• Brooklyn Dispatches: Computer Brain, Or Human Stain

  – By James Kalm

• Five One Liners

  – By Claudia La Rocco

• Our Myopia, Ourselves

  – By Thomas Micchelli

Books

• Glenn Head WITH AARON LEICHTER

• NONFICTION: Homeland Mythology

  – By Jim Feast

• NONFICTION: Atomic Childhood

  – By Anna Wainwright

• NONFICTION: Decline and Fall

  – By Christopher Leland Winks

• FICTION: The Gessen Game of History

  – By Ralph Clare

• NONFICTION: Thumbs Up

  – By Thomas Burke

• NONFICTION: Power of Steel and Wood

  – By Charlene Choi

• FICTION: A Handful of Change

  – By Meghan Roe

• FICTION: The Penitent is Mightier

  – By David Varno

• Poetry Roundup

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• Prose Roundup

  – By Fred Cisterna, John Colasacco, and Anitta Santiago

Music

• Dimensions in Music: Ears to the Ground...and in the Case of

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Remember Me—But, ah, Forget My Fate

  – By David Varno

• Ambulance LTD's Marcus Congleton with Grant Moser

• Funky But Sleek: Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon (ECM)

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• Like All, They Depend Upon Familiar Songs

  – By Richard Kostelanetz

• Andy Friedman with Owen Roberts

Dance

• Gallim Dance Company's I Can See Myself In Your Pupil: A Review

  – By Margaret Fuhrer

• The Joy of Intimacy: The 22nd Annual Performance Mix Festival

  – By April Greene

• Extreme Behavior? Or Simply Queer?

  – By Ryan Tracy

• Laura Peterson's Electrolux: A Review

  – By Ryan Tracy

Film

• Remapping Hou Hsiao-Hsien

  – By Ara Osterweil

• The Unseen and the Unspoken: The Films of Lee Chang Dong

  – By David Wilentz

• Less Talk, More Smoke

  – By David N. Meyer

• Shipwrecked (Again) on Apatow Island

  – By Makenna Goodman

• Go See Neil Patrick Harris Ride a Unicorn on Mushrooms

  – By Mary Hanlon

• Silent Ozu & Late Ozu box sets

  – By David Wilentz

• The Dragon Painter

  – By Lu Chen

• Blast of Silence

  – By David N. Meyer

Theater

• The Art of Countering Despair: Naomi Wallace

  – By Betty Shamieh

• The Art of Assimilation

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Nixon’s Secretary STRETCHes: Truth, Tape and History

  – By Gary Winter

Fiction

• The Ditch

  – By Terese Svoboda

• The Ta-Da Girl

  – By Terese Svoboda

• Afterthoughts of the Future, Premonitions of a Crime to Remember

  – By Carl Watson

• Wounds and Contusions (Political Acts )

  – By Mario Benedetti

• Exiles (A Man in a Lobby)

  – By Mario Benedetti and Harry Morales

• Exiles (Penultimate Resting Place)

  – By Mario Benedetti and Harry Morales

• The Man at the Office

  – By Pat MacEnulty

• Fiction

  – By Johannah Rodgers

• My Father

  – By Ron Kolm

• The Algebra of Fiction

  – By Mark Maxwell

• 20 Tanks from Kasseldown

  – By Charles Bukowski

• Tragic Strip: If Only There Were Heroes Here

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• Hard Without Music

  – By Charles Bukowski

Poetry

• from Kundiman for the Condemned

  – By Paolo Javier

• The Human Machine: 30 Chances

  – By Anna Moschovakis

• The Fallout

  – By Ann Stephenson

• Dead Black Men

  – By Paul Killebrew

• For Beth Ward

  – By Paul Killebrew

LastWords

• Selected Observations on Urban Fauna

  – By Peter Wortsman