The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Notes on Altered States

  – By Ken Johnson

Local

• A Field of One’s Own

  – By Mary Mann

• REPORT CARD A Philadelphia Story

  – By Liza Featherstone

• Footsteps into a New Life

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

• Docs in Sight: Blood and Silence on La Frontera Bernardo Ruiz with Williams Cole

• Goofing Off

  – By William Rossa Cole

• Earthship, New Mexico

  – By Samara Reigh

• OUR NADA WHO ART IN NADA: Notes on Suicide

  – By Jonah Raskin

• BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A Dispatch from Athens

  – By Katerina Triantafillou

• A QUI LE QUÉBEC? Scenes from the Maple Spring

  – By MJ Thompson

• ARTS AND LETTERS: The Sequel A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy

  – By Forrest Hylton

• Not So Wild About Wild

  – By Orli Van Mourik

• Deviant Reflections: A Voice for Sexual Freedom

  – By David Rosen

Art

• What is the Miami Rail?

  – By Phong Bui

• YAN PEI-MING with Charles Schultz

• JIM LEEDY with Kara Rooney

• DANA SCHUTZ with Jarrett Earnest

• Writing from Nowhere

  – By Timothy R. Quigley

• FRANK STOUT (1926 – 2012)

  – By Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

• AARON CURRY Buzz Kill

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Restrictions, Limitations, Confinements

  – By Dan Tarnowski

• VARDA CAIVANO / YAEL DAVIDS

  – By David Rhodes

• SHURA CHERNOZATONSKAYA Raw/Cooked

  – By Veronika Sheer

• EARLY CONCEPTUAL ART: Documents, Installations, and Related Manifestations

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• DAN FLAVIN’s Altering Light

  – By Greg Lindquist

• N. DASH

  – By Michael Straus

• ELLEN PHELAN Encyclopedia of Drawing, 1964 – 2012

  – By Phong Bui

• CUI FEI & TACA SUI Origins

  – By Charles Schultz

• THE PARADE: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• Ascent for Myron Stout and Ralph Ellison

  – By Ben LaRocco

• SAM GORDON trompe l’oeil

  – By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata

• JOSEPH NECHVATAL nOise anusmOs

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• MARTIN PURYEAR New Sculpture

  – By Phong Bui

• TAYLOR DAVIS

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• Time-Lapse

  – By Corina Larkin

• Letter from TOKYO

  – By Terry R. Myers

• FRANCESCA DIMATTIO Table Setting and Flower Arranging

  – By Erin Yerby

• Letter from LEEDS Windows and Doors

  – By William Corwin

• KELLY JAZVAC Thermoloaded

  – By R. H. Lossin

• ANDRÉ MASSON The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks from 1925 to 1945

  – By Valery Oisteanu

Books

• BOA EDITIONS with Aspen Matis

• CHRISTOPHER BRAM with Scott Cheshire

• BIOGRAPHY East Was Eden

  – By Jeremy Lybarger

• FICTION Drugs and Other Loves

  – By Jim Feast

• FICTION THE OTHER WORLD

  – By Ashley K. Nelson

• MEMOIR Writing ‘Not the Whole Story’ History

  – By Matt Reeck

• FICTION Educated, Civilized, and Utterly Lost

  – By James Leon Suffern

• RAPID TRANSIT

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation

  – By Jesse Tangen-Mills

• JENINE HOLMES with Rebecca Walker

• A Counterfeit Tale, Full of Value

  – By James Leon Suffern

• Little Bit Sick

  – By Luis Jaramillo

Music

• The Raw and the Cooked

  – By Andrew Cappetta

• Music of the Sphere

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• The Constellar Sounds and Stories of Shelley Hirsch

  – By Holly Tavel

• On Blunderbuss and Jack White's Lonesome Mass Appeal

  – By Joseph Klarl

• Forever’s No Time at All

  – By David Shirley

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• DAVID GORDON with Nancy Dalva Beginning of the End of the Beginning Of.

• Closer, Please

  – By Siobhan Burke

• Intimate Gatherings

  – By Christine Shan Shan Hou

Film

• MATTHEW AKERS with Joseph Klarl

• AFTEREFFECTS: Mapping the experimental ethnography of Juan Downey in The Invisible Architect

  – By Amalia Cordova

• Two Reviews

  – By Troy Swain

• NARRATIVES OF ISOLATION: JACQUELINE GOSS with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa

Theater

• How to be a Feminist and Still Get Laid: Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn

  – By Kathryn Walat

• So. Seven playwrights, five directors, and four producers sit down to write a play…

  – By Various Authors

• Noor Theatre Blazes New Light: Food and Fadwa at NYTW

  – By Ginny Mohler

• At Wrest in the Middle of Time with Will Eno

  – By Ben Gassman

• Chimichangas and Zoloft with Fernanda Coppel

  – By Cusi Cram

Fiction

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel

  – By Mario Benedetti

• 3 stories

  – By Anna Mockler

• from Clèves

  – By Marie Darrieussecq, Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

• from The Secret Life of Objects

  – By Dawn Raffel

Poetry

• Five

  – By Marina Lazzara

• Four

  – By Leopoldine Core

• Two

  – By Jon Leon

• Minced Pollock

  – By Judah Rubin

Art Books

• CARSTEN HÖLLER: Artist's Portfolio

  – By Hamilton Morris

• Vestiarium Scoticum

  – By Sandeep Bhuller

• BENJAMIN MARRA with Ashok Kondabolu

LastWords

• from The Revolution Of Everyday Life

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