The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• Toward Polyphonic Criticism

  – By Jarrett Earnest

Art

• AN-MY LÊ with Sara Christoph

• SARAH LEWIS with Phong Bui

• DEMYSTIFYING GERHARD RICHTER’S GESTURAL ABSTRACTION Painting in the Gap between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art

  – By Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.

• TAL R with Phong Bui

• YAEL BARTANA with Sara Roffino

• KRISTIN JONES with Ann McCoy

  – By Ann McCoy

• DREAMLAND Coney Island and the 20th Century Avant-Garde

  – By Kurt Hollander

ArtSeen

• MARGRIT LEWCZUK Me, We

  – By Tyler Akers

• ALIZA NISENBAUM

  – By Erin Yerby

• STUART SHILS because i have no interest in these questions...

  – By Hearne Pardee

• WANG JIANWEI Time Temple

  – By Tatiana Istomina

• STURTEVANT Double Trouble

  – By Christopher Green

• All Pores Open

  – By Molly Elizalde

• JOE FYFE make me one with everything

  – By David Rhodes

• Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art

  – By Charles Schultz

• Djordje Ozbolt More paintings about poets and food

  – By William J. Simmons

• SADIE BENNING Fuzzy Math

  – By Terry R. Myers

• RUDY BURCKHARDT Subterranean Monuments: A Centenary Celebration

  – By Robert Berlind

• Thanks to Apple, Amazon, and the Mall

  – By Maya Harakawa

• Rough Cut

  – By Kate Liebman

• TAL R Altstadt Girl

  – By Margaret Graham

• SAUL MELMAN Central Governor

  – By Shana Beth Mason

• JON SCHUELER 1975 – 1981, The New York Years

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• RYAN MCNAMARA Gently Used No Entrance, No Exit

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• LUCY SKAER

  – By Ann McCoy

• Nostalgia for Jane Freilicher (1924 – 2014)

  – By Anne Waldman

• A Tribute to Jake Berthot 1939 – 2014

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• Castles Burning

  – By Michael Straus

Critics Page

• ABOUT POLYPHONY: All in One

  – By Bill Berkson

• THE ENAMORED MAGE Magic, Alchemy, and Esoteric Thought in Works by Robert Duncan and Jess*

  – By David Levi Strauss

• LISA YUSKAVAGE on Nina Simone and Giovanni Bellini

• Black Wedding

  – By Aliza Shvarts

• “PUTTING YOURSELF IN A PLACE WHERE GRACE CAN FLOW TO YOU” Nancy Goldring on Robert Lax

• Dolly Parton’s Songs

  – By Dave Hickey

• THE LAND WHERE YOU WANTED TO BE Paul Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and 17-year-old Me

  – By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Books

• Fearing The Feral Carousels No More

  – By Christopher Michel

• The Long Way Around

  – By Jill Dehnert

• Recovering Churchill

  – By Allen Guy Wilcox

• A New Look at New Delhi

  – By Diksha Basu

• Bound Together

  – By Casey Murphy

• The Morality of Landscape

  – By Christopher X. Shade

• The Elemental Similarities That Unite Us

  – By Weston Cutter

• FICTION AS MAGIC, LANGUAGE AS SPELL PETER MARKUS with Lily Hoang

• THE ELEMENT OF ESCAPE: ATTICUS LISH with Dan Ostlund

Music

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

• THE REAL FOLK BLUES FERAL FOSTER with Stephanie Joy Del Rosso

• A CONCERT, WITH FOOTNOTES GABRIEL KAHANE, The Ambassador

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• About Last Night

  – By Jeff Tompkins

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• Reflections on Seeing and Saying

  – By Leslie Allison

• ELEMENTS OF ERASURE Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith’s Rude World

  – By Cassie Peterson

• THE BODY IN PIECES Zoe | Juniper Examines Myths of Memory and Identity

  – By Madison Mainwaring

• AMERICAN REALNESS: Move You/Move Me New Works by Miguel Gutierrez, Jack Ferver, Keith Hennessy, and Luciana Achugar

  – By Jaime Shearn Coan

• SIX MONTHS LATER Reflecting on Ferguson

  – By Ryan Kelly

Film

• THEME AND VARIATIONS The Royal Road, Phoenix, and The Dragon is the Frame

  – By Max Goldberg

• DIRTY PRETTY THINGS David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars

  – By Glenn Heath JR.

• SERIOUS GAMES: Film and video at play in Experimenta at the 2014 BFI London Film Festival

  – By Herb Shellenberger

• SURVEILLANCE AESTHETICS On Laura Poitras’s 9/11 Trilogy

  – By Ava Kofman

• PLENTY OF CAUSES FOR CONCERN BAM’s Migrating Forms

  – By Ben Mendelsohn

• ON REFLECTION When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism

  – By David Gregory Lawson

Theater

• MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT Bareknuckle at Gleason’s Gym

  – By Hannah Bos

• Laundromat-Theater: Where Every Fold Matters

  – By Ginny Mohler

• Tanya Barfield: On the Space-Time Continuum

  – By Kathryn Walat

Fiction

• Paranoia

  – by Hassouna Mosbahi, translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins

• from Delusions of Being Observed

  – By Lewis Warsh

• Conversation In The Palace Of Ch’ien-Lung

  – by Alfred Döblin, translated from the German by Chris Godwin

• from Miransù

  – by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio

• The "Game" of Cat and Mouse

  – By Tom Motley

Poetry

• Two

  – By Sophie Robinson

• Five

  – By Rod Smith

• from Lovers in the Marquetalla Republic

  – By Tim VanDyke

• Three from mary wants to be a superwoman

  – By erica lewis

• Eleven

  – By Noelle Kocot

Art Books

• LEARN TO READ ART: A Surviving History of Printed Matter MAX SCHUMANN with Maya Harakawa

• Nick Cave: Epitome

  – By Holly Gavin

• April Gornik Drawings

  – By Robert Berlind

Field Notes

• Happy New Year!

  – By Paul Mattick

• Is it Possible to Win the War After Losing All the Battles?

  – By Pavlos Roufos

• Letter from Paris

  – By Charles Reeve

• Anger and Shame

  – by Catherine Robert, Isabelle Richer, Valérie Louys, and Damien Boussard

• We Should Say No to This Hypocritical Rally

  – By Patric Jean

• AYOTZINAPA Reasons of State—and Economy

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• Why Now? Why in Guerrero?

  – By Magdalena Galindo Ledezma

• Ayotzinapa: The Rural Normal School and the Criminal Government Offensive

  – By Jorge Cázares

• The Criminal Economy

  – By Sandy E. Ramirez Gutiérrez