APR 2018 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Why Poetry Now
– By Ann Lauterbach

Publisher's Message

Dear Readers and Friends,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

David Levi Strauss on Leon Golub
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve on Leon Golub
Tom McGlynn on Leon Golub
Susan Harris on Leon Golub
Jan Avgikos on Leon Golub
Mary Ann Caws on Leon Golub
CARRIE MOYER: Pagan’s Rapture and Seismic Shuffle
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables
– By Jason Rosenfeld
CHRIS MARTIN
– By Alan Gilbert
CYPRIEN GAILLARD: Nightlife
– By Sarah Goffstein
NATHLIE PROVOSTY: My Pupil is an Anvil
– By Will Fenstermaker
ROBERT GOBER: Tick Tock
– By Pac Pobric
ARLENE GOTTFRIED: A Lifetime of Wandering
– By Anna Dunn
CARISSA RODRIGUEZ: The Maid
– By Andreas Petrossiants
Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
– By Madeline Murphy Turner
CY TWOMBLY: Coronation of Sesostris & In Beauty It Is Finished: Drawings 1951-2008
– By Alfred Mac Adam
MILTON RESNICK: Boards 1981-1984
– By David Rhodes
ALLISON MILLER: Feed Dogs
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq
Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings
– By Joe Bucciero
Stations of The Cross
– By Ann McCoy
ZOE LEONARD: Survey
– By Jason Rosenfeld
SHEILA HICKS: Free Threads, The Textile and its Prehispanic Roots 1954-2017 & Lifelines
– By Grant Klarich Johnson
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today
– By Steven Pestana
ALEXANDRA PIRICI: Co-natural
– By Elizaveta Shneyderman
Outrageous Fortune: Jay DeFeo and Surrealism
– By Jessica Holmes
Place for Continuous Eye Contact (8): A Test-Drive with Mindfulness
– By Adam Beal
KES ZAPKUS: New Paintings
– By Hovey Brock
MILTON AVERY: Early Works on Paper + Late Painting
– By William Corwin
ALEX DA CORTE: C-A-T SPELLS MURDER
– By Jesse Bandler Firestone
HOWARDENA PINDELL: What Remains To Be Seen
– By David Sprecher
MILDRED THOMPSON: Radiation Explorations and Magnetic Fields
– By Hovey Brock
CARLOS REYES: West Side Club
– By Vijay Masharani
GERWALD ROCKENSCHAUB: Geometric Playground (Flamboyant Edit)
– By David Rhodes
JACOLBY SATTERWHITE: Blessed Avenue
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsansos, Devin Kenny, John Neff
– By Ian Edward Wallace
MATERIAL WITNESS WITNESS MATERIAL
– By Nicole Miller
KARI CHOLNOKY: True Level
– By Chris Kaspar
JOHN McALLISTER: cymbals of sleep uncurtain the night
– By Alex A. Jones
GREG LINDQUIST: Of ash and coal
– By William Corwin
RACHEL MASON: Star Death and The Pain Body
– By Daniel Gerwin
ISA GENZKEN: Sky Energy
– By Jan Avgikos
Violated Bodies: New Languages for Justice and Humanity
– By Elleree Erdos
DANH VO: Take My Breath Away
– By AV Ryan
RICHARD ALDRICH: Enter the Mirror
– By David Rhodes
JOHAN WAHLSTROM: Life is Good
– By Mark Bloch
KISHIO SUGA
– By Colin Edgington
JENNIFER COATES: Correspondences
– By Tom McGlynn
BRADLEY EROS: All that is solid melts into eros
– By Ann McCoy
JESSE CHUN: Name Against the Same Sound
– By Jonathan Goodman
JEFFREY PERKINS: George
– By Mark Bloch

Critics Page

Books

Language is Always a Shared Occasion: FADY JOUDAH with Alex Dueben
Isaac Babel’s The Essential Fictions
– By Veronica Scott Esposito
Denis Johnson’s The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage
– By Deena ElGenaidi
Laura Kasischke's Where Now: New and Selected Poems
– By Gale Renee Walden
TADZIO KOELB with Michael Natalie
The Disintegrations: ALISTAIR McCARTNEY with Jordan A. Rothacker
Sofia Samatar's Monster Portraits
– By Rebecca Rukeyser
Sheryl St. Germain's The Small Door of Your Death
– By Tony Leuzzi

Music

Burns Like Hell
– By Eli Zeger
Sexmob and John Medeski at Jazz Standard, March 9th, 2018
– By Martin Longley
Shelley Hirsch: The Flourishing Fields of Reception
– By MV Carbon
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Not Even Preaching: NYFOS: Protest, February 27, Merkin Concert Hall
– By Marshall Yarbrough
April Selections
– By Brad Cohan

Dance

Mixed Means and Precarious Performance: Dancers on Nick Mauss's Transmissions
– By Benedict Nguyen
GESEL MASON with Megan Pugh
– By Megan Pugh
Honest Women
– By Erica Getto
Image to Body, and Back Again
– By Gillian Jakab
Reflections on Reggie Wilson’s Danspace Platform: in Conversation with Drawings and Text
– By Gyun Hur and Helly Minarti

Film

Escape from the Internet Swamp: ZACH BLAS with Iván Zgaib
Having Some Space: Dissociation and Generative Embodiment in Basma Alsharif's Ouroboros
– By Lydia Ogwang
In the Field: Sharon Lockhart, James Benning, and People
– By Steffanie Ling
Berlinale Forum 2018
– By Giovanni Marchini Camia
High and Low: The Light and Shadows of Kazuo Miyagawa
– By Jaime Grijalba

Theater

Alternating Currents: Visiting Electchester with Adam Kraar
– By Ed Cardona Jr
THE DEFIANT POLITICS OF COLLECTIVITY: The Assembly’s SEAGULLMACHINE
– By Adam R. Burnett

Fiction

The Cursed Hunter in the Red Lands (January 1836)
– By Douglas Glover
The Threesome (That Eventually Led to Spike Lee)
– By Alejandro Varela
The Nameable : on experimental writing
– By Eugene Lim
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #3: Prospecting
– By Tom Motley
inSerial: part seventeen Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
4 stories from Malay Sketches
– By Alfian Sa’at
from Ivory Pearl
– By Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
New Routes in Fiction: ELIZABETH STROUT with Alec Niedenthal
Throwing Stones
– By Joshua Daniel

Poetry

trick o’death
– By Anne Waldman
visual notes on the constitution
– By Andrei Codrescu
from ROSWELL/GREENCREST
– By Jay Besemer
four
– By Douglas Piccinnini
symbolic philosophy
– By Roberto Harrison
Six from Atopia
– By Sandra Simonds

Verbatim

Stephen Antonakos: Notes on Public Art
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Art Books

In Part: Writings by Julie Ault
– By Madeline Weisburg
The Collages of Helen Adam
– By Mary Ann Caws
Giorgio Morandi: Late Paintings
– By David Carrier
Depero Futurista
– By Nick Bennett

Field Notes

What Lessons Does the WV Teacher Strike Have for Labor’s Future?
– By Ken Fones-Wolf
Disaster Preparedness Is an Illusion
– By Natalie Baker
Is Democracy Compatible with Capitalism? Reconstruction in the US, 1863-1877
– By Charlie Post
PHIL NEEL with Paul Mattick
Only Connect: A Review of Richard Walker’s Pictures of a Gone City
– By Max Moorhead

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