The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• On the Road in Dakar

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Windows of the World Workers Stay United

  – By Dania Rajendra

• No Place for Walmart

  – By Diane Krauthamer

• Redemption in Bushwick

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• UNITY: A desperate plea for adult supervision

  – By Brian J. Carreira

• REPORT CARD

  – By Liza Featherstone

• No Escape

  – By Nicholas Jahr

• Aboard the Big Red Bus

  – By Dave Kim

Express

• Inside the Tropic of Chaos: CHRISTIAN PARENTI with Theodore Hamm

• After the Twister

  – By Brian Awehali

• RED MEMORIES: WALTER BERNSTEIN with Gregory Zucker and Molly Rose Ávila

• Red Legacies

  – By Michael Terry

• THE GOOD OLD ’70S: The End of the Amerian Century

  – By David Rosen

• LASTING IMPRESSIONS Three Reviews

  – By Christopher Michel

• Smoke and Mirrors in Pursuit of Suez’s Striking Workers

  – By Robert S. Eshelman

Art

• TRACEY EMIN Love Is What You Want

  – By Vincent Katz

• MATTHEW DAY JACKSON with Charles Schultz

• RICHARD SERRA with Phong Bui

• DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford

• JENNIFER BARTLETT with Phong Bui

• WOLF KAHN In Latter-Day Focus Color & Consequence

  – By Lucio Pozzi

• In Memoriam CY TWOMBLY (1928–2011)

  – By Claire Daigle

• Readings From the Vast Unread

  – By Phong Bui and Robert Hullot-Kentor

ArtSeen

• :)

  – By Gail Quagliata

• MARK DI SUVERO at Governor’s Island

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• Whose Modernism is it Anyway?

  – By Edward M. Gómez

• FRANCIS ALŸS: A Story of Deception

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• DONALD JUDD

  – By Greg Lindquist

• Sea Worthy

  – By Charles Schultz

• The Peripheterists

  – By Cora Fisher

• 7 New York Painters

  – By Ben La Rocco

• The Ecstasy of Saint Herzog

  – By Shane McAdams

• Geometry: Selected Works from the Estate of MARY ANN UNGER

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• DANIEL DOUKE Bytes of Reality

  – By John Yau

• Letter from BERLIN

  – By David Rhodes

• ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Savage Beauty

  – By Anne Sherwood Pundyk

• MELANIE BAKER: Feast

  – By Phong Bui

• JOHN O’CONNOR What is Toronto???

  – By Charles Schultz

• Under Destruction II

  – By Jen Schwarting

• LOUIS I. KAHN Building a View STEPHEN ANTONAKOS Spaces

  – By Aldrin Valdez

• WE ARE PRIMITIVE: Apichatpong’s Ineffable Experience of Nabua

  – By Aily Nash

• Feelers

  – By Linnea Kniaz

• BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Making the Trains Run on Time

  – By James Kalm

• Does Nordic Art Exist? A Lesson In Transculture

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• GEORGE GITTOES: Witness to a War

  – By Noah Dillon

• LEE UFAN: The Art of Present Reality

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• ALLORA & CALZADILLA: Gloria

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• The 54th Venice Biennale

  – By Emily Warner

• Artists in Bushwick

  – By Stephen Truax

• Bushwick Open Studios Continues to Grow but at What Cost?

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• PICASSO and MARIE-THÉRÈSE: L’Amour Fou

  – By Cassandra Neyenesch

• JASPER JOHNS New Sculpture and Works on Paper

  – By John Yau

• BILL RICE Paintings & Works on Paper

  – By John Yau

Books

• Canonizer’s Feast

  – By William S. Niederkorn

• Coming of Age in Child Soldier Literature

  – By Hawa Allan

• SIRI HUSTVEDT with Molly Gallentine

• Echo’s Accent

  – By Michael Leong

• Anthology Review

  – By Nicolle Elizabeth

• Memoir Review

  – By Rosemary Bailey

• RAPID TRANSIT or A SUMMARY OF SOME SUMMER PAGES

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• Palma’s Artful Web

  – By Marie Bacigalupo

• Fiction Review

  – By Jim Feast

• Remembering Everything

  – By Rochelle Melton

• Fiction Review

  – By Connie Aitcheson

Music

• Songs for Swinging Babies

  – By George Grella

• Further Out of Time

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Visitation Rites

  – By Katy Henriksen

• Shamanic Rites on Wall Street

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• Embracing A New, Unforgotten Future

  – By Justin Vellucci

• It Became Part of My Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy

  – By Billups Allen

Dance

• Hangman Takuzo

  – By Yasuko Yokoshi

• Editor’s Note

  – By Claudia La Rocco

• An Imaginary Education in the History of Written Dances

  – By Aynsley Vandenbroucke

• Blackfish

  – By Emily Johnson

• Kennis Hawkins

  – By Kennis Hawkins

• Some Experiments, Curiously Intertwined, on Time, the Body, and the Nature of What I Do Over Here

  – By Kathryn Enright

• Four drawing/collages for duet with Kayvon

  – By Juliette Mapp

• The Minotaur

  – By Karinne Keithley Syers

• Electric Midlife

  – By Beth Gill

• All the Props in My Basement

  – By Annie-B Parson

Film

• ADOLFAS MEKAS (1925–2011)

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• Notes on W.C. Fields (for Jim Gardner)

  – By Jim Supanick

• PURE AMERICAN CRAZY: Errol Morris’s Tabloid

  – By Jacob Mikanowski

• ONCE UPON A TIME, THE PRINCESS WOKE UP: Catherine Breillat’s Sleeping Beauty

  – By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

• BLURRED BOUNDARIES: Selections from Migrating Forms 2011

  – By Colin Beckett and Jason Livingston

Theater

• Margraff’s Got the Greek Blues

  – By Kathryn Walat

• TAKE IT TO THE STREETS: Site-Specific Theater Hits NYC

  – By Jen Taher

• Kara Lee Corthron’s Julius by Design

  – By Kia Corthron

• Balm in Brooklyn: A Case Study

  – By Stephanie Fleischmann

Fiction

• Girl

  – By E. Hampton

• Special Friend

  – By Lewis Warsh

• Lost Time

  – By Lewis Warsh

• FÉDER or the Gilded Husband the final installment from an unfinished novella

  – By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson

• The Roses at the Hospital

  – By Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping

• The Face

  – By Laird Hunt

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• Character and Fitness: Chapters 13 and 14

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

Poetry

• two from "Insurgentes"

  – By Marc Nasdor

• The Word for World is Forest Poem

  – By Laura Neuman

• While Drinking Coffee at Zingerman's

  – By Clayton Eshleman

• from “147 Million Orphans: A Haybun”

  – By Eileen Tabios

Art Books

• The Positive News About Negative Thinking

  – By Abbe Schriber

• SMOKE AND MIRRORS: Fashion and Socialist Politics

  – By Eugenie Dalland

• A Time When No Budget, Unlimited Time and Resourcefulness Shaped Counter-Culture

  – By Greg Lindquist

• The Problem with the Nightmare

  – By Natasha Stagg