The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• The lessons of 9/11?

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Counting Off Upstate: Just Say Moo

  – By Ezekiel Edwards

• From Breuckelen to Brooklyn: Writers Craft a Compelling—and Fun—Borough History

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• Will One More Domino Fall in Williamsburg?

  – By Leah Kreger

• Rumble in Brooklyn

  – By Ellen Moynihan

• Wayne Barrett with Williams Cole

• Pedal Power vs. the NYPD

  – By reZz A

Express

• Left on the Inside: Robert Scheer with Theodore Hamm

• Just Another War?

  – By Anat Biletzki

• All Quiet on the Eastern Front by Retort

  – By Retort

• Taking the Long Way Home from Lebanon

  – By Lynn Love

• “On the Trail in Oregon: Is the Party Over?”

  – By Doug Cordell

• Torture Doesn’t Just Have to be Rabid Canines and Rape Pyramids Anymore

  – By Marika Josephson

• “Movies are All People Know” An Interview With Ken Jacobs

  – By Jim Knipfel

• A Begrudging Tribute to Mickey Spillane

  – By Tim McLoughlin

• Experiential Lit: Grégoire Bouillier with Yann Nicol Translated by Violaine Huisman and Lorin Stein

• Allende Lives

  – By Alina Reyes

Art

• Ron Gorchov with Robert Storr and Phong Bui

• A Tribute to Connie Reyes-Corrigan (1929–2006)

  – By Margrit Lewczuk, Bill Jensen, Diane Palomba, and Gabriel Held

• A Life in Theory: Sylvère Lotringer with Joan Waltemath

• Alison Elizabeth Taylor with John Yau

ArtSeen

• A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts

  – By Lauren Ross

• Mike Kelley Green Depths And Los Angeles 1955-1985, Naissance d’une Capitale Artistique

  – By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

• Daughters of Dada

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• The New Landscape / The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art

  – By John Yau

• Report from London

  – By Sherman Sam

• Into Me / Out of Me

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Julie Monaco

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Rudy Burckhardt

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Hans Richter

  – By David Markus

• Rosa Loy

  – By James Kalm

• Zaha Hadid

  – By Cynthia Eardley

• Clare Gasson

  – By Shane McAdams

• Report from Germany

  – By Barbara Weidle

Books

• Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Bob Dylan and the Adolescent Sublime

  – By Charles Bernstein

• Living Things

  – By William Corbett

• Politics: Celebrity of War

  – By Katy Henriksen

• More

  – By Jane King

• Beat for Beat

  – By Douglas Manson

• The Truth in Winkie

  – By Veronika Sheer

• Environment: Coal Junkies

  – By Erica Wetter

• Dawgone Shaggy

  – By Gary Winter

Music

• Echo and Reverb

  – By Dann Baker

• Glam with Fangs: Bowie’s Diamond Dogs Reissued

  – By Paul Grimstad

• Dimensions in Music: From Mambo to Salsa, Part Five, IP Hilton Ruiz—Learning with los Grandes—Plying New Terrain

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Ze Cat’s Meow: Pamela Z: “ New Strategies with DJ Spooky” at Symphony Space, the Cutting Room, and the Stone

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• Tropicalia Retriumphant: Os Mutantes Come to New York

  – By Todd Simmons

• Sounds, Paths, Radios: Notes on Stars Like Fleas

  – By David Varno and Erin Durant

Dance

• Dance Crush: Batsheva Dance Company at the Lincoln Center Festival

  – By Catherine Massey

• Winter Voyage/The Rite of Spring: Emanuel Gat Dance

  – By Krista Miranda

Film

• It’s a Mann’s World

  – By Jenny Schlenzka

• Suspend My Disbelief, Please

  – By David N. Meyer

• Idealism on Crack

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Girls on Film

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• Princes and Assassins

  – By David Wilentz and Sara Mayeux

• New Maps of Heaven

  – By Ioannis Mookas

Theater

• YOU GOTTA HAVE ♥ Ken Urban’s I ♥ KANT

  – By Isaac Butler

• A Great Name: A Remembrance of Lloyd Richards

  – By Lonnie Carter

• Nothing That Is So Is So: Young Jean Lee’s Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven

  – By Richard Fulco

• Revolution at the Gates: Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee’s New Downtown Now

  – By Jason Grote

• Mac Makes an Opera

  – By Kathryn Walat

• A Trustworthy Theater: REDEYE: A New York-Ljubljana Translation Think Tank

  – By Amiel Melnick

• The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Iphigenia

  – By Chiori Miyagawa

• Be Like Lloyd

  – By Aurin Squire

• DOWNTOWN IS A STATE OF MIND CUNY’s Prelude ‘06

  – By Jake Hooker

Fiction

• The Hard-Boiled Egg

  – By Eugéne Ionesco

• The President’s Mouth

  – By Shelley Jackson

• MILO- A Conversation Between Christine Schutt and Diane Williams

  – By Diane Williams and Christine Schutt

Poetry

• First Italian Prose (1954)

  – By Jennifer Scappettone and Amelia Rosselli

• Ten Truisms and a Lie, Sitcomposite: A Cento, Are You a Racist?

  – By Ravi Shankar

LastWords

• A Leap Second

  – By Michael Martone