The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Stranger from Another Planet

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• What’s For Dinner

  – By Marjory Garrison

• Lou Dobbs Ain’t No Damn Indian

  – By Matthew Vaz

• Utopia Has a Web Site: Commune Life on Staten Island

  – By Jonah Owen Lamb

• One Saturday in Queens

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Reflections on the Immigrant Rights Movement

  – By Gabriel Thompson

• P.S. 24: Social and Emotional Learning in Dos Idiomas

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• Against the Giuliani Legacy

  – By Williams Cole

• Farewell to Jane Jacobs (and to Williamsburg, too)

  – By Jane Jacobs

Express

• Letter From New Orleans

  – By Micah Maidenberg

• excerpt from Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal

  – By Anthony Arnove

• Bush’s Hopes in the Hands of Gangsters

  – By Ryan Grim

Art

• Mel Bochner with Phong Bui

• Trenton Doyle Hancock & Fred Tomaselli with Dan Nadel

• Bill Berkson with David Levi Strauss

• Allan Kaprow (1927–2006)

  – By Robert C. Morgan, Wolf Kahn, and Irving Sandler

• A Railing Opinion

  – By Dore Ashton

ArtSeen

• Orrie King and Laurie Sermos

  – By Shane McAdams

• Rob Nadeau

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Al Hansen

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• Inka Essenhigh

  – By James Kalm

• Yvonne Jacquette

  – By James Kalm

• Stephen Ellis

  – By Michael Brennan

• Robert Rauschenberg

  – By Jim Long

• Eric Heist

  – By William Powhida

• Marci MacGuffie

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Don Voisine and Richard Bottwin

  – By Michael Brennan

• Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument

  – By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

• Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• Jules Olitski

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Irving Petlin

  – By Carrie Moyer

• Florence Pierce

  – By Jennifer Riley

• Tomas Vu

  – By Gandalf Gavan

• Miyoko Ito

  – By John Yau

• Robert Lazzarini, Drawings

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Report from Germany “For Ermyas M.”

  – By Barbara Weidle

• Dan Fischer

  – By Lauren Ross

• Aporia

  – By David Marcus

Books

• The Perversion of “Wise Use”

  – By Stephenie Hendricks

• Hats, Staircases, and the Mystery of Fact

  – By Katy Henriksen

• Will the Real T Cooper…

  – By David Varno

• A Perfect Yarn

  – By K.M. Ferebee

• A Grin to Bear It

  – By Michael Lindgren

• The Fruits of Risk

  – By Sina Queyras

Music

• Kink Goes Pink

  – By Sharon Mesmer

• Angular Banjos

  – By Paul Grimstad

• The Last Bandit: Nikki Sudden, 1956–2006

  – By Mike Lupica

• Dimensions in Music: From Mambo to Salsa, Part Four

  – By Alan Lockwood

Dance

• Representing Stravinsky

  – By Corey Harrower

• Tere O’Connor: Bringing up BABY and Bringing Down Dance Criticism

  – By Mathew Sandoval

• Of Buds, Blooms and Battments: Stephen Petronio at The Joyce

  – By Vanessa Manko

• Are We There Yet? Meg Stuart Pays a Visit Home

  – By Catherine Massey

Film

• Kenneth Anger with Pip Chodorov

• The Resistant Bettie Page

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• Living Our Broken Dreamz

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Blood In The Sun

  – By David N. Meyer

• Noir At the Film Forum

  – By David Wilentz and David N. Meyer

Theater

• Talking Band’s The Necklace: A serial mystery in eight episodes

  – By Roger Babb

• A Great Man Of Genius: Mike Daisey at Galapagos

  – By Miriam Felton-Dansky

• Catching the Conscience: Lessons Drawn from My Name is Rachel Corrie

  – By Rachel's Words

• Sanctifying The Quotidian: Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City

  – By Kristen Palmer

• Open the Gate: Gary Winter’s At Said at PS 122

  – By Richard Fulco

• May on Track

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• Rehearsal Diary of THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE in Space-Saving Haiku Format

  – By Colleen Werthmann

Fiction

• Contents of a Censor’s Outbox

  – By Susan Daitch

• Diggers

  – By Susan Daitch

• The Ether Ride

  – By Doug Nufer

Poetry

• Bob Holman with Monica de la Torre

• Elaine Equi

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• Halvard Johnson

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• Carol Mirakove

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LastWords

• The Story

  – By Jonathan Baumbach