The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Note of Thanks

  – By Phong Bui

Local

• Where Did Uptown Go?

  – By Rodney Robinson

• REPORT CARD: “Who Wants to be a Teacher Now?”

  – By Liza Featherstone

• The Luxury City

  – By Julian Brash

• A Person of Prominence

  – By Shulem Deen

• Home Is Where the Brew Is

  – By Dave Kim

• Upsetting Brooklyn

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• CITY NOTES: Brooklyn Is Everywhere

  – By Theodore Hamm

Express

• The Book Critics Circle Awards

  – By Allyson Polsky McCabe

• RALLYING THE FREE (but not too Brave)

  – By Michael Terry

• Breach the Contract

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• LOVE + RADIANCE Marie Curie in Lauren Redniss’s Radioactive

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Truth and the Documentary Form

  – By Williams Cole

• Future of the Living Dead

  – By Allen Wilcox

• THE PARTY’S OVER: Welcome to the “New Normal”

  – By David Rosen

• Against the Underdogs

  – By Michael Terry

• Pet Politics

  – By Brendan Carney Byrne

Art

• PAT STEIR with Phong Bui

• MEL KENDRICK with Ben La Rocco

• CAMERON MARTIN with Greg Lindquist

• ELLEN PHELAN Landscapes and Still Lifes: A Selection

  – By Rex Auchincloss

• What Lies Beneath the Roses

  – By Caroline Dumalin

ArtSeen

• FOR THE BROOKLYN RAIL FROM DORE ASHTON Krzysztof Wodiczko’s …Out of Here: The Veteran’s Project

  – By Dore Ashton

• CHUCK WEBSTER My Small Adventures

  – By John Yau

• JUDITH LINHARES Riptide

  – By John Yau

• ROBIN WILLIAMS Rescue Party

  – By Corina Larkin

• GILLIAN CARNEGIE

  – By Jeremy Sigler

• MARY JUDGE Pop-Oculus: new works in pigment

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960

  – By Patricia Milder

• Winter @ The Kitchen

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• Hard-Edgeness in American Abstract Painting

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Found in Translation

  – By Cora Fisher

• MICHAEL PATTERSON-CARVER Loose Lips Do Sink Ships

  – By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata

• PATRICK JACOBS Familiar Terrain

  – By Charles Schultz

• Letter from LONDON

  – By Sherman Sam

• Letter from BERLIN

  – By David Rhodes

• Letter from HONGKONG

  – By Liz Rivière

• JOHN MCDEVITT KING: In Pursuit of Alien Perfection

  – By Susan Yung

• Dark Star: STEPHEN IRWIN, 1959–2010

  – By Aimee Walleston

• ESTEBAN VICENTE Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• GEORGE CONDO Mental States

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• Exit from the Overpass

  – By Shane McAdams

Books

• Rapid Transit

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• The Bard’s Evangelist

  – By William S. Niederkorn

• Holey Logic, Batman

  – By Jeffrey Stanley

• EMILY FLAKE with Allegra Frazier

• MATVEI YANKELEVICH OF UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE with Jon Curley

• Monster Loneliness

  – By Paul Charles Griffin

• Musical Thrills

  – By Christopher Vola

• Makeshift Metropolis

  – By Kianoosh Hashemzadeh

• At Risk

  – By Maxine Case

• A Zero Named One

  – By Patrick Gaughan

• Haywire

  – By Jim Feast

• Newport Mirth

  – By Gee Henry

• Filling in the Blanks

  – By Dustin Cosentino

• Interpretations

  – By Nicolle Elizabeth

• Dynamic Duo

  – By Tatiaana L. Laine

• Of God and Anarchy

  – By Randy Rosenthal

Music

• Third Stream Symphony: Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica at Barbès

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• In Which Prince at Last Wins the Battle Against Evil, and Yet Y'all Still Make Fun of Him

  – By Kurt Gottschalk

• BECAUSE LA NUIT Patti Smith Unplugged Dreams Cité de la Musique, Paris

  – By Bonny Finberg

• Anarchist Voices

  – By Kate Silver

• Words Without Song

  – By Peter Lamborn Wilson

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Deserted Cities of the Heart

  – By Dave Mandl

Dance

• FLICFest TRIPTYCH

  – By Siobhan Burke

• All That Jazz (Again) at the New York City Ballet

  – By Evan Namerow

• danceFEED

  – By Roslyn Sulcas

• Cori Olinghouse of Ninja

  – By Patricia Milder

• Voguing Against Tradition

  – By Christine Hou

• Lost in Space

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• Baby, Why You Gotta Treat Me So Bad?

  – By Michelle Vellucci

• Self, Unending

  – By Thom Donovan

Film

• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

  – By Colin Beckett

• BETTER RED THAN DEAD: Body-Snatched Prisoners of Comanche Mind Control

  – By J. Hoberman

• XL IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES: 2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam

  – By Aily Nash

• ART ON TAPE: Selections from MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight 2O11

  – By Cullen Gallagher, Leo Goldsmith, and Rachael Rakes

• Varieties of Documentary

  – By Fred Camper

Theater

• LACING ON THE GLOVES: Beautiful Burnout Hits St. Ann’s Warehouse

  – By Julie Bleha and Chris Lee

• MAKING KIN: Bathsheba Doran with Jenny Schwartz

• You Are Now The Owner Of This Suitcase!

  – By Ben Gassman

• No Lame Plays Please. Thank you!

  – By Trish Harnetiaux

• LET IT RAIN Director Daniel Talbott and Playwright Stephanie Janssen reopen The Umbrella Plays

  – By Crystal Skillman

• Aviones de Papel: From One City to Another, a Play Takes Flight

  – By Christy Hutchcraft

Fiction

• The Unfaithful Dreamer

  – By Alain Arias-Misson

• Three Stories

  – By Anatoly Gavrilov, Translated from the Russian by the Chicago Translation Workshop

• FÉDER or the Gilded Husband

  – By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson

• Character and Fitness: Chapters 5 and 6

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

Poetry

• from Lightbox

  – By Stephanie Anderson

• True Discourse on Power

  – By Peter Gizzi

• Four

  – By Prageeta Sharma

• man to manifesto with quote “Change everything except your loves” Voltaire

  – By Nathaniel A. Siegel

Art Books

• Tao de France

  – By John Ganz

• Made in China?

  – By Eugenie Dalland

• Face to Face

  – By Maxwell Heller