The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Note from the Publisher

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• The Rail’s 2011 Player of the Year

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• YOU CAN’T PUT A LANGUAGE IN A ZOO: Bob Holman and Endangered Languages

  – By Stephanie Nikolopoulos

• From Brooklyn to Park City: Keith Miller’s Welcome to Pine Hill

  – By Angela Wagner

• Hookah Crackdown in Bay Ridge

  – By Aparna Narayanan

• THE 99% BAT-SIGNAL: A Cry from the Heart of the World

  – By Mark Read

• #OWS: Images from the Day of Eviction (11/15) and the Day of Action (11/17)

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• REPORT CARD Here Comes Success

  – By Liza Featherstone

• At Home in the Chelsea Hotel

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• Why Cooper Union Matters

  – By Litia Perta

Express

• The Rail’s 2011 Player of the Year

  – By Theodore Hamm

• OCCUPY GO ROUND: The Dimensional Nature of the Movement

  – By Paul McLean

• Going to the Mat in Baghdad

  – By Matthew Igoe

• THE NEW ERA OF PUBLISHING? Williams Cole Checks in Again with John B. Thompson

• Language and Its Discontents

  – By Courtney Fiske

• The Great American Swindle

  – By Ross Barkan

• City of God

  – By Allen Wilcox

• Such a Good War

  – By Pehr Englen

Art

• John Elderfield, Jennifer Field, Lauren Mahony, and Delphine Huisinga with Phong Bui

• RITA ACKERMANN with Anne Sherwood Pundyk

• Missing Vita

  – By Bill Jensen

• BONNIE MARRANCA with Patricia Milder

• OverRuled Performance by Shirin Neshat

  – By Eleanor Heartney

• CHARM LIKE A DRUG MAURIZIO CATTELAN with Jarrett Earnest

• SARAH CANRIGHT Curated by Nic Nicosia

  – By Phong Bui

• UNHAPPY DAYS IN THE ART WORLD? De-skilling Theater, Re-skilling Performance

  – By Claire Bishop

ArtSeen

• DANA SCHUTZ If the Face Had Wheels

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• SHERRIE LEVINE Mayhem

  – By R. H. Lossin

• DAVID SMITH Cubes and Anarchy

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• BROOKLYN DISPATCHES Birth of a Notion

  – By James Kalm

• NAN GOLDIN Scopophilia

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• CLIFFORD OWENS Anthology

  – By Cora Fisher

• AJ FOSIK Time Kills All Gods

  – By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata

• WHAT A (SELF) PORTRAIT CAN DO Picturing South Africa in New York

  – By Maxwell Heller

• GABRIELE EVERTZ Rapture

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Algorithmic Unconscious

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• REBECCA PURDUM and MATTHEW FISCHER

• RICHARD POUSETTE-DART East River Studio

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• WILL COTTON Cockaigne

  – By William Corwin

• JOAN MITCHELL The Last Paintings

  – By Greg Lindquist

• AMY SILLMAN Thumb Cinema

  – By David Rhodes

• RICO GATSON Three Trips Around the Block

  – By Charles Schultz

Books

• NONFICTION Beyond the Previously Known Bard

  – By William S. Niederkorn

• ELISSA SCHAPPELL with Jenine Holmes

• FICTION This Young Girl Passing

  – By Jeff McConaghy

• Lost with Phone

  – By Chris Campanioni

• FICTION To Assume a Pleasing Shape

  – By Liz Axelrod

• Body Variations

  – By Mark Snyder

• FICTION Downward Spiral

  – By Christopher Vola

• POETRY Poetry as Alchemy

  – By Marietta Abrams

• FICTION Hooked on Interest

  – By Mark Snyder

• NONFICTION The Makings of An American

  – By Justin Mitchell

• JUSTIN TORRES with Jenine Holmes

• RAPID TRANSIT

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• POETRY Blog Posts from an American Poet

  – By Nicolle Elizabeth

• THE EDITORS OF THE COFFIN FACTORY with Aspen Matis

• MAX WINTER AND LISA LUBASCH with Megan Gillin-Schwartz

Music

• The Return of the Brooklyn Philharmonic

  – By George Grella

• Sun-Bleached Hand of the Man

  – By Dominic Umile

• ALEX WATERMAN with Timothy Nassau

• A LITTLE BRAIN SURGERY: Sonic Festival

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• Tom Waits Takes His Old Fans For a New Ride

  – By Dmitry Kiper

• The WKCR Bach Marathon

  – By Richard Kostelanetz

• OUTTAKES

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• Editor’s Note

  – By Claudia La Rocco

• Merce Notes

  – By Christian Wolff

• Correspondence

  – By Carolyn Brown

• Material Man

  – By Lise Friedman

• SIDEBAR FROM BAM: The Complete Works MERCE CUNNINGHAM

  – By Nancy Dalva

• Nine Goodbyes

  – By Siobhan Burke

• Walking the Line

  – By Robert Swinston, as told to Claudia La Rocco

• Cold Storage and New Brightness:The Merce Cunningham Acquisition at the Walker Art Center

  – By Abigail Sebaly

• Fond Farewells

  – By David Vaughan

• SILAS RIENER and RASHAUN MITCHELL with Claudia La Rocco

Film

• A Glance at First Look: Overlooked Essentials in the Museum of the Moving Image's New International Showcase

  – By Anna Bak-Kvapil

• THE AESTHETIC AND THE THERAPEUTIC

  – By Ricky D'Ambrose

• George Kuchar’s Otherworldly Humanity

  – By Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee

• RE-ENTRY: Thoughts on Jordan Belson: 1926–2011

  – By Gregory Zinman

• Is This What You Were Born For?

  – By Jim Supanick

• EVENT HORIZON: Roy Lichtenstein’s Three Landscapes

  – By Tom McCormack

Theater

• The Great Play Download: Indie Theater Now

  – By Loren Noveck

• Superhero Clubhouse: the Call to Grow Theater

  – By Melissa F. Moschitto

• lifting the Curtain Costume Designers Melissa Schlachtmeyer, Normandy Sherwood, and Jessica Pabst with Gary Winter

• LIN HIXSON and MATTHEW GOULISH with Carol Becker

Fiction

• The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel

  – By Mario Benedetti

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• Kurt Vonnegut at the Writers’ Workshop

  – By Suzanne McConnell

Poetry

• Three

  – By Michael Ruby

• Wall Street Teenager

  – By Allan M. Jalon

• Abstract Painting

  – By Rachel Hurn

Art Books

• The Death-Ray

  – By Bill Kartalopoulos

• John Gould: The Family of Toucans

  – By Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

• Redheaded Peckerwood

  – By Adam Bell

LastWords

• from The Revolution Of Everyday Life

  – By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith