SEPT 2011 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

A New Anniversary
– By Theodore Hamm

Local

CITYNOTES A New Anniversary
– By Theodore Hamm
No Place to Sleep
– By Eleanor J. Bader
REPORT CARD Our Fake School Board
– By Liza Featherstone
After 9/11, Listening to the City
– By Abby Scher
The City Revealed
– By Jillian Steinhauer

Express

Time for a New Dance
– By Justin Mitchell
WORLD OF DEBT: DAVID GRAEBER with Spencer Woodman
WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE “NEW INDIA”: SIDDHARTHA DEB with Scott Sherman
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF “TERRORISM” IF A TREE FALLS’S SAM CULLMAN In Conversation with Williams Cole
A Race to Nowhere
– By Ross Barkan
A China Hand
– By Michael Terry
Voilà, Paris!
– By Allen Wilcox

Art

ArtSeen

How to Proceed in the Arts (after O’Hara and Rivers, with love)
– By Ben La Rocco and Craig Olson
CHARLES ATLAS Joints Array
– By Patricia Milder
AI WEIWEI New York Photographs 1983 – 1993
– By John Yau
RAILING OPINION: GODDESSES, OVARIES, AND THE SEDUCTRESS: Bring It On Home To Me
– By Lisa Corinne Davis
Tale of The Tables
– By Denise Lassaw
TRACEY EMIN Love Is What You Want
– By Vincent Katz
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES Game-Changer?
– By James Kalm
CY TWOMBLY Sculpture
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk
La Saison de Claude-Oskar Monet
– By Robert C. Morgan
IN VENICE: Schnabel and the Persistence of Art
– By Robert C. Morgan
La Carte D’Après Nature
– By Cora Fisher
KRISTYNA AND MAREK MILDE In Loving Memory
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
AGA OUSSEINOV In the Middle of Erewhon II
– By Veronika Sheer
TALK TO ME: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
– By David St.-Lascaux
MORGAN PACKARD Dihedral Product
– By Charles Schultz
AUROCH’S LIBRARY Chess Match
– By Benjamin Gottlieb
Letter from BERLIN
– By David Rhodes
Can I Get a Witness? JOSHUA ABELOW, JOACHIM “YOYO” FRIEDRICH, and MATT CONNOLLY
– By Linnea Kniaz

Books

LYNNE TILLMAN with Caroline Ball
THE POWER OF SECOND JOHAN HARSTAD with Ann Votaw
POETRY The Gay Man Who Loved Women
– By James Cihlar
CRITICISM Death Agents
– By John Bengan
COLLECTION Madame Futurist
– By Len Gutkin
FICTION Smoke and Mirrors
– By Randy Rosenthal
MEMOIR The Serial Name-Dropper
– By Ray Abernathy
BIOGRAPHY Keeping Score
– By Connie Aitcheson
FICTION Studio Portrait
– By Mani Parcham
A Very Productive Season
– By Nicolle Elizabeth
RAPID TRANSIT Or A Fistful of Fulfilling Fall Books
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

New York's Best-Kept Jazz Secret
– By William S. Niederkorn
ALAN PIERSON: Making “Brooklyn's Orchestra”
– By George Grella
The Thunder Sheet, the Zither, and the Mousepad
– By David St.-Lascaux
The Geist of Independence
– By Laura Flierl

Dance

LALALALANDIA
– By Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly
The Accidental Activist
– By Aaron Mattocks
At the Merce Fair
– By M.J. Thompson
In Proximity of a Public in Process
– By Ben Evans
AUDIENCE-GENERATED PERFORMANCE: A Summer Spent Watching
– By Sarah Maxfield

Film

CINEMA AS AN EVENT: An Interview with Light Industry’s Ed Halter
– By Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith
DIFFICULT FACTS Esfir Shub and the Problem of Realism
– By Anastasiya Osipova
GOD NEVER DIES Eugenio Polgovsky’s The Inheritors
– By Polly Bresnick
ACTIVISTS & ALIENS: Films of Unrest at the 2011 Festival del Film Locarno
– By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

Come ’n’ Get It: Conni’s Restaurant Lands in Brooklyn
– By Melissa F. Moschitto
Connie Congdon needs to have her mouth washed out with soap
– By Julia Brownell
The Mindscape of Septimus and Clarissa: Ripe Time Adapts Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
– By Patricia Laurence

Fiction

Mappa Mundi: The Structure of Western Thought
– By Douglas Glover
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Shitty Mickey
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Poetry

DJ Frogs
– By Mei-Mei BerssenBrugge
Three
– By Barry Schwabsky
Four
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Art Books

Nicely Dressed Noise
– By Al Burian
ANDY’S ANIMALS
– By Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
VITAL VICTUALS: A (POST)MODERN REMIX
– By Jeffrey P. Smith
MUSIK ALS TRÄGER VON IDEEN
– By John Beeson
Neither Wife Nor Widow
– By Abbe Schriber

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