The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• The People Have Spoken

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Bike Wracked

  – By Karl Greenberg

• Stop and Frisk

  – By Audrea Lim

• Down There: Trinidadian Mysticism in South Flatbush

  – By Aaron Lake Smith

• Entrepreneurial Dreams in Brooklyn

  – By Terésa Stern

• A Tree Grows in Bed-Stuy—and Organic Stuff Too

  – By Haley Bell

• Exploring Bennett College

  – By Nadia Chaudhury

Express

• Dispatches from Denver

  – By David Levi Strauss

• Beijing Games: More Than a Pretty Face

  – By Nicole Robson

• Rising Above the Flood: Kimberly Roberts, Scott Roberts, and Carl Deal

  – By Williams Cole

• Down and Out in Hollywood

  – By Doug Cordell

• India: A View from Below Aravind Adiga with Hirsh Sawhney

• Not Available at Your Local Bookseller: Edgardo Vega Yunqué’s Latest Novel

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Just a Spoonful of Chemicals...

  – By Katie Rolnick

• The Mind of Torture

  – By Rollo Romig

• Against the Mush

  – By Jessica Loudis

Art

• Tribute to Bruce Conner (1933-2008)

  – By John Yau

• Bruce X

  – By David Levi Strauss

• John O'Connor with Eve Aschheim

• Joan Snyder with Phong Bui

• Jerry Saltz with Irving Sandler

• Kota Ezawa with Constance Lewallen

ArtSeen

• Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Letter From Venice Off-Season: Art between the Biennials

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Dalí: Painting and Film

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• Kirchner and the Berlin Street

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Michael Peters & Erik Carlson

  – By Warren Fry

• Jess: Paintings and Paste-Ups

  – By John Yau

• Chris Domenick and Anne Pearce: Drawbridge

  – By Becky Brown

• J.M.W. Turner

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Antonio López García

  – By John Yau

• Railing Opinion: Mao Is Like So Over

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• Painting: Now and Forever, Part II

  – By Craig Olson

• Letter From Quito: Reality Revealed-Contemporary Art in Ecuador

  – By Josh Morgenthau

• One Live Stitch

  – By Erin Lindholm

• Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• The Olaf Eliasson Phenomenon

  – By Shane McAdams

• Bay Area Now 5

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Jonathan Pylypchuk

  – By Natalie Haddad

• After Nature

  – By Emily Warner

• Jilaine Jones: Sculpture

  – By Sharon L. Butler

• Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since 1970

  – By Ian Volner

• Louise Bourgeois

  – By Anne Byrd

• Brooklyn Dispatches: Virtually Overwhelmed

  – By James Kalm

• Ghada Amer: Love Has No End

  – By Kimberly Lamm

• Grandma

  – By Cassandra Neyenesch

• Letter from London

  – By Sherman Sam

• Unpopular Culture

  – By Sherman Sam

• Bourgeois Trilogy

  – By Laura Hunt

Books

• Adam Bellow with Finn Harvor

• Portrait of the Dominican Nerd as an (Overweight) Young Man

  – By Ben Reichman

• Do Spring Showers Disclose Flowers?

  – By Ted Pelton

• NONFICTION: Why Everyone Talks About Ulrike Meinhof

  – By Johannah Rodgers

• FICTION: The Storyteller

  – By Anna Wainwright

• NONFICTION: Raising Poetry

  – By Sharon Mesmer

• NONFICTION: Armchair General

  – By Matthew Mercier

• POETRY: Finding A Better Use

  – By Jim Feast

• NONFICTION: A Pity Thing

  – By Philip Anselmo

• Poetry Roundup

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• Prose Roundup

  – By Erin Heath, Ben Mirov, Tatiaana Laine, Ken Murray, Gary Lain, Lara Tupper, Clinton Krute, and Zoe Slutzky

Music

• Echoes of a Bygone 'Burg: TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and Gerard Smith with Theodore Hamm

• Lightspeed Champion Between Conan O'Brien and the Sidewalk Café

  – By Kate Crane

• Liberating Sound Floating Points Plays ISSUE Project Room

  – By Alan Lockwood

• The Deep Strangenesses of the Fiery Furnaces

  – By Kurt Gottschalk

• A Bale with a View Johnny Flynn

  – By Meghan Roe

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Brought to You by the Letter G

  – By Grant Moser

• Miami's Godfather of Noise

  – By Patrick Greene

• Famoro Dioubate with Aaron Lake Smith

  – By Aaron Lake Smith

Dance

• William Forsythe’s Impressing the Czar

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• Pure Really Quite a Mélange Readymade Dance Theater Company at PS122

  – By April Greene

Film

• Shock Treatment and Awe: The Divided City of Lou Reed's Mind

  – By Tim Bracy and Elizabeth Nelson

• I Get a Woody Just Thinking About It!

  – By Makenna Goodman

• The Kindness of Strangers

  – By Lu Chen

• WALL-E Is 2 EZ

  – By Camila de Onis

• Filthy Lucre

  – By Mary Hanlon

• Classes tous risques (1960)

  – By David N. Meyer

• Help Me, Eros (Bang Bang Wo Ai Shen)

  – By David N. Meyer

• The Furies (1950)

  – By David N. Meyer

Theater

• As Few Words as Possible Sarah Cameron Sunde on Jon Fosse

  – By Paul Willis

• The Power of Political Theater

  – By Tara Bracco

• Hooch & Hatchetation Radiohole takes on the Nation

  – By Alexis Clements

Fiction

• Another Friend

  – By Emmanuel Bove

• The Mariner (A Static Drama in One Scene)

  – By Fernando Pessoa

• Tragic Strip: Comic Con Diary

  – By T. Motley

Poetry

• Boxcar Jumper Cable

  – By Jessica Fiorini

• Joie de Vivre

  – By Lisa Jarnot

• For the Nation

  – By Lisa Jarnot

• Nun Reading Romance Novel

  – By Lisa Jarnot

• Poem to my enemies

  – By Nada Gordon

• Voice Dhoti: Gong (after Dana Ward)

  – By Nada Gordon

LastWords

• Ramadan Story

  – By Owen Byron Roberts