The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
December 2004/January 2005
Books
Suketu Mehta with Hirsh Sawhney
by Hirsh SawhneyBooks
Brooklyn-based Suketu Mehta, a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, spent the late 1990s becoming intimate with the gangsters and zealots responsible for the violence, as well as the slum dwellers, cops, bar girls, and movie stars who make India’s thriving commercial capital function.
Off the Shelves
by Book staffBooks
Prins, Other People’s Money; Boyer, Kings & Queens; Dan Raeburn, Chris Ware; McCormick, Killing Bono; Stuever, Off Ramp; Elborn, Scream Queens of the Dead Sea
Jill Schoolman with Kate Trainor
by Kate TrainorBooks
Jill Schoolman is the publisher of Archipelago Books, a newborn, not-for-profit literary press based in Brooklyn.
Émigré’s Delight: Gombrowicz at the Beinecke Library
by Alan LockwoodBooks
Through January 15, Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library exhibits The World of Witold Gombrowicz, selections from the archive of the caustically funny Polish émigré writer who worked out of obscurity, then was the favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, the year he died.
With Milosz in Mind
by Vyt BakaitisBooks
Milosz came out with new books regularly during all but the first twenty years of his extended lifetime. In part, the rebounding dialectic derived from a close attention to rapid and compelling historical developments in his “provincial” corner of Europe.
