The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• The $64,000,000 Pyramid

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• A Call for Narrative

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• What’s For Dinner

  – By Marjory Garrison

• Up with Downzoning:

  – By Aaron Brashear

• Bike Messengers: Beta Still Rules on the Street

  – By David Varno

• Bloomberg Says His Prayers

  – By Kate Greer

• Kit Kaplan: Capturing Brooklyn on Film

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

• Change-a-lujah!

  – By Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood

• JOHN BERGER’S MOTORCYCLE

  – By Andy Merrifield

• Have the Democrats Become the Party of Al Franken?

  – By Theodore Hamm

• The Revolution of Exalted Embarrassment

  – By Reverend Billy

• Triumph of the Dear Leader: A Journey Inside North Korea

  – By J. Scott Burgeson

• The Bear and the Mouse

  – By Christopher Ketcham

• Excerpt from For God and Country

  – By James Yee and Aimee Molloy

Art

• Roselee Goldberg with Praxis

• James Siena with Chris Martin

• Omer Fast Godville

  – By Daniel Baird

• Suzan Frecon with John Yau

ArtSeen

• Brian Jungen

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Joan Jonas The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things

  – By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

• El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files El Museo del Barrio

  – By Chris Howard

• Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

  – By William Powhida

• Marcia Hafif

  – By John Walthemath

• Christopher Wilmarth Sculpture and Drawings

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Roland Flexner Nocturne

  – By Shane McAdams

• Alex Katz First Sight: Working Drawings from 1965–2002

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Geoffrey Dorfman Recent Work

  – By James Kalm

• Rick Briggs Painter Man

  – By James Kalm

• Nicolas Carone A Selection of Works on Paper

  – By Tomassio Longhi

• Lordy Rodriquez

  – By Katie Stone Sonnenborn

• Micki Watanabe Lost and Found in the Stacks

  – By Shane McAdams

• Shirley Jaffe Tibor de Nagy

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Jasper Johns The Flag Drawings

  – By Jim Long

• Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon

  – By Valery Oisteanu

Books

• Richard Ford with James McCloskey

• Mike Albo with Jen Zoble

• Culture: Wild girls

  – By Corrie Pikul

• Poetry: Elegy for a Young Poet

  – By Erin Durant

Music

• Bill Fay: Bill Fay and Time of the Last Persecution (Eclectic Discs)

  – By David Shirley

• The Fall: Fall Heads Roll

  – By Donald Breckenridge

• Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony, Finally

  – By Richard Kostelanetz

Dance

• Dance and the Urban Experience

  – By Emily Larocque

• The Latin Vibe Trying on salsa’s swirling hips

  – By Kathryn Enright

• Ann Liv Young’s "Michael" Review

  – By Krista Miranda

Film

• P. Adams Sitney with Brian L. Frye

• The Absolute Cool of Death and Horses

  – By David Wilentz

• Cracking Movie Gromit!

  – By Karl O'Toole

• Pointless Pyrotechnics & Shomin Geki

  – By David N. Meyer

• Nature and Society

  – By Williams Cole

Theater

• He said...SHE SAID WaxFactory reconstructs Duras with Jason Grote

• Our Own New Deal: Planting Roots for American Theater

  – By Zachary R. Mannheimer

• Excerpts from: Divine Fire: Eight Contemporary Plays inspired by the Greeks edited

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Fiction

• Stories by Diane Williams

  – By Diane Williams

Poetry

• Night Thoughts

  – By Robert Kelly

• A person sits next to a fugue, To Light Out, Now Then

  – By Karen Weiser

• Unbewusste Orte, Feuilles Tourbillonnantes

  – By Vincent Katz

• The Elect, This Time Gone So Fine

  – By Elena Alexander

LastWords

• The Apotheosis of the Smile

  – By Peter Wortsman