JUNE 2009 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

The Song Remains the Same
– By Theodore Hamm

Local

Asthma Act Will Help Tenants Breathe Easier
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Whose Coney Island?
– By Michael Miller
Rethinking Growth: One City/One Future’s Blueprint
– By Richard Wells
Development Takes Center Stage In 33rd District City Council Debate
– By James Trimarco and Krista Hanson

Express

The Anti-Bloombergistas and the City in Exile
– By Matthew Vaz
Letter to India: The Platform of Hope
– By Tabish Khair
Love in the Time of Swine Flu: David Lida’s Affair with Mexico City
– By Mark Dery
Hope for Justice at the World’s Court? Pamela Yates with Williams Cole
Something About Histories in Berlin
– By Joseph Riippi
Down in Jamaica: A Journey to the Calabash International Literary Festival
– By Hirsh Sawhney
A Global Look at Women’s Rights
– By Kaitlin Bell
The Pre-Fast Food Era: The Food of a Younger Land
– By Christopher Michel
Addictive, Ephemeral Stories in a Digital Age
– By Ian Crouch
Lost and Found in Bangkok
– By Nicholas DeRenzo
An Interstate of Words
– By Christopher Michel

Art

ArtSeen

Alberto Giacometti: Drawings
– By Alix Finkelstein
Poster Boy: Brooklynovation
– By Emily Nathan
Unica Zürn: Dark Spring
– By John Yau
Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself
– By Cora Fisher
John Outterbridge
– By John Yau
Sadie Benning: Play Pause
– By Cassandra Neyenesch
Nalini Malani: Postmodern Cassandra
– By Thomas McEvilley
The Plop of the Paint: Tumi Magnússon
– By Joseph Masheck
Ray Johnson…Dalí/Warhol/and others…‘Main Ray, Ducham, Openheim, Pikabia…’
– By Valery Oisteanu
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
– By Thomas Micchelli
R.C. Baker: “…and Nixon’s coming” ⁄ the draft
– By Emily Warner
Petit Retrospective of ARAI Shin-ichi Works from 1999-2009
– By Warren Fry
Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
– By Sharon L. Butler
Keiko Narahashi: Picturehood
– By Laura Hunt
Brooklyn Dispatches
– By James Kalm
Graham Nickson: Italian Skies
– By Robert C. Morgan
Pierrette Bloch
– By Thomas Micchelli
Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works, 2000-2007
– By Terry R. Myers
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
– By Kimberly Lamm
Francis Bacon
– By Maxwell Heller
Letter from ULAN BATOR
– By Ellen Pearlman
Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch: The Aboutthing (in the air)
– By Kara L. Rooney
Letter from LONDON
– By Sherman Sam
Judith Murray: Continuum
– By Lilly Wei

Books

Fiction: Brooding On Hope
– By Paul Charles Griffin
Fiction: The Double Helix of Violence
– By Anis Shivani
Fiction: They Mean Well
– By Polly Rosenwaike
Poetry: The King Lives. Long Live The King!
– By Tim W. Brown
Poetry: Opening Up
– By Jim Feast
Nonfiction: Darkness At The Edge Of Town
– By Jon Curley
Tokens
– By Tatiaana Laine, Jon Curley, and Ray Abernathy
Rapid Transit
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

The Emergence of Acoustic Spasm
– By Dan Wilson
The Music Was Dying
– By Brandon Kreitler
An Enquiry Concerning Questionable Practices within the Scientific Methodologies of the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
– By Kurt Gottschalk

Dance

Christopher Williams's Epic of Martyred Men
– By Mary Love Hodges
Sacred or Sensually Profane? Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet’s Dust and Light and Rasa at the Joyce, May 5-10
– By Dalia Ratnikas
“Dance in the Body You Have:” An Interview with Kitty Lunn
Digression: A Dance Writer Looks at Whitman Undressed
– By Mary Love Hodges
Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group: 3 Dancers, 4 Chairs, But Still Only Two Dimensions
– By April Greene

Film

The Decade After The Decade Before: Merrily We Go to Hell
– By Sarahjane Blum
Hausu Party
– By David Wilentz
Inept, Righteous, and Extremely Prolific
– By Malcolm Wyer
In League With Satan
– By David Wilentz
The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
– By Oren Shai
Without You, I’m No Thing
– By Lisa Moricoli-Latham
Of Trees and Neighbors
– By Lu Chen
DAZED AND ABUSED: THE HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE AS INSTITUTIONAL HELL
– By Tim Bracy and Elizabeth Nelson

Theater

TALKING AMISH: JESSICA DICKEY AND SARAH CAMERON SUNDE WITH TOMMY SMITH
– By Tommy Smith
REAPING FACE(BOOK): SOCIAL NETWORKING, THEATER MARKETING
– By Valerie Work
WOMEN IN THE TRENCHES: HENRY V STEPS INTO THE HAZARD
– By Julie Bleha

Fiction

READ THE SNOW
– By Terese Svoboda
Three Stories
– By Oona Haas
You Are Where I Am Not
– By Andrew Farkas
Identity Theft
– By Andrew Farkas
FROM A SUBARU FORESTER (novel fragment)
– By Meredith Brosnan
Reruns Rezoomed: A Serial Novel
– By Jonathan Baumbach
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Asalto Navideño
– By Forrest Hylton
Identity Crisis
– By Forrest Hylton
Hurto Revertido
– By Forrest Hylton
Contours: An excerpt from Vanishing Acts: A Tragedy
– By Forrest Hylton

Poetry

The Spelled Out Spark in Rooms; for Dan Flavin
– By Albert Mobilio
Botanical
– By Kristen Gallagher

LastWords

The Great Game
– By James Arnett

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