The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• No One Gets to be Right

  – By Terry R. Myers

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• SAM GILLIAM with Tom McGlynn

• ALIZA NISENBAUM with Yasi Alipour

• LARI PITTMAN with Terry R. Myers

• TOMAS VU with Phong Bui

ArtSeen

• Christian Marclay

  – By Amanda Gluibizzi

• Ed Clark

  – By Louis Block

• Doron Langberg: Likeness

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Sky Hopinka at the Poor Farm

  – By Frani O'Toole

• Josiah McElheny: Observations at Night

  – By Charles Schultz

• Yasmin Kaytmaz: Hippocrene Runs Dry

  – By William Corwin

• Morehshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown

  – By Joel Kuennen

• Allan Sekula: Labor’s Persistence

  – By Brett Wallace

• The Aerodrome

  – By William Davie

• Kyle Breitenbach: When the Leaves Come Down

  – By Nicholas Heskes

• Keith Tyson: Life Still

  – By Daniel Pateman

• At Baselitz Academy

  – By Richard Shiff

• Stephen Milner: A Spiritual Good Time

  – By J C

• About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging

  – By Lisa E. Bloom

• Devin Kenny: rootkits rootwork

  – By W Tao

• Mika Rottenberg: Easypieces

  – By Dan Cameron

• Amy Bennett: Nuclear Family

  – By Robert R. Shane

• John Armleder: Sh/Ash/Lash/Splash

  – By David Rhodes

• William Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Malcolm Morley, Richard Artschwager, and Made in Vermont

  – By Phong Bui

• The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Joan Jonas: Moving Off The Land II

  – By Barry Schwabsky

• Jannis Kounellis

  – By Toby Kamps

• Venice 2019: A Few Reflections

  – By Barbara London

• T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America

  – By Mark Bloch

• Monique Mouton: Scene

  – By David Rhodes

• Leonardo da Vinci's Saint Jerome

  – By Brandt Junceau

• Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera

  – By Kathy Brew

• Ralston Crawford: Torn Signs

  – By Louis Block

• Daria Martin: Tonight the World

  – By tamara suarez porras

• Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot

  – By Ann C. Collins

• Yun Hyong-Keun: A Retrospective

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Jay DeFeo: Depicting with Abandon

  – By Clifford Ross

1x1

• Exit Strategies: On Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970)

  – By Anthony Hawley

Critics Page

• Rethinking David Hockney

  – By Bill Arning

• "WRONG? ME?"

  – By Laura Cottingham

• I Was Wrong

  – By Dan Cameron

• Unbuggerable

  – By Michelle Grabner

• "I Fucking Hate David Hockney"

  – By Jonathan T.D. Neil

• Second Thoughts

  – By David Pagel

Books

• SALMAN RUSHDIE with John Domini

• Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror

  – By Christine Mi

• Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger

  – By Deena ElGenaidi

• Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys

  – By Joseph Peschel

• Leland Cheuk's No Good Very Bad Asian

  – By Kurt Baumeister

• JIA TOLENTINO with Eric Farwell

• Eternal Poet

  – By devorah major

• KIMBERLY J. SOENEN with Kathleen Rooney

• JOSHUA SPERLING with Sebastiaan Faber

• Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside: Stories

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• T.C. Boyle's Outside Looking In

  – By Joseph Peschel

• Karen Russell's Orange World and Other Stories

  – By Joseph Peschel

• Philippe Petit's On the High Wire

  – By Zach Davidson

Music

• Mark Berry's Arnold Schoenberg

  – By George Grella

• Ethno Port 2019

  – By Martin Longley

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Dommengang: Derivative Originality

  – By John Amen

• September Listings

  – By George Grella and Brad Cohan

Dance

• ITA SEGEV with George Kan

  – By George Kan

• The Master and Form: Ballet is Not Bondage

  – By Noa Weiss

• This Is What Accessibility Sounds Like

  – By James Dinneen

Film

• Zombie Vérité: Olivier Meyrou’s Celebration

  – By Micah Gottlieb

• Talking Things Through: Lucy Parker's Solidarity

  – By Matt Turner

• DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR with Madeline Whittle

  – By Madeline Whittle

Theater

• An Experiment You Don't Understand: Adrienne Truscott, Ursula Martinez, and Zoë Coombs Marr Address their Critics in Wild Bore

  – By Miriam Felton-Dansky

• Twenty Years of WaxFactory

• In the Spotlight with The Public Theater’s Emerging Writer’s Group

  – By Joshua Young

Fiction

• From Nomad Siesta

  – by Débora Vázquez, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude

• From The Factory

  – by Hiroko Oyamada, translated from the Japanese by David Boyd

• Magnetic Sleep

  – By Radha Vatsal

• inSerial: part eleven The Mysteries of Paris

  – by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno

• Chapter 12 from NADA

  – by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

• The Road to Golgonooza

  – By T. Motley, Cyndi Rizzo, Stevens Valmor, and Cookie Motowan

• As the World Burns

  – By Tom Motley

• New Routes in Fiction: KIMBERLY KING PARSONS with Alec Niedenthal

Poetry

• POEM (“popular fear…”)

  – By Simon Pettet

• two

  – By Marie Buck

• five poems from “From a Winter Notebook”

  – By Matvei Yankelevich

• four

  – By Kit Schluter

• Best Ship Braving Waves

  – By Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves

• But I Did Learn to Swim: A Few Memories of Kevin Killian

  – By Trace Peterson

Art Books

• Art Books Dispatches from the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair

• Aaron Schuman's SLANT

  – By Jennie Waldow

• Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism

  – By Megan N. Liberty

• Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals

  – By Lee Ann Norman

• EBONY FLOWERS with Naomi Elias

ArTonic

• Pen + Brush

  – By Alex A. Jones

Field Notes

• Nationalism, Borders, and the State

  – By Ross Wolfe

• Weimar: Then or Now?

  – By Gary Roth

• The Educated Working Class

  – By Peter St. Clair

• Emma Goldman's Adventures in France