The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
MAY 2006
Books
The Perversion of “Wise Use”
by Stephenie HendricksBooks
In 1845, New York journalist John O’Sullivan editorialized that “it was the nation’s manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given.”
Hats, Staircases, and the Mystery of Fact
by Katy HenriksenBooks
Reading The Ongoing Moment is like sitting down with Geoff Dyer to coffee at a corner diner just after accompanying him to a recent survey exhibit of 20th century American photography.
Will the Real T Cooper…
by David VarnoBooks
Meta-fiction shows up in different ways; it can run consistently through an entire book, informing every statement the author makes, or it might pop up in sparse, subtle moments.
A Perfect Yarn
by K.M. FerebeeBooks
Charles D’Ambrosio’s new collection of stories, The Dead Fish Museum, is a remarkable set of mixed blessings.
A Grin to Bear It
by Michael LindgrenBooks
Jim Feast’s novel Neo Phobe, written with Ron Kolm, is a shaggy monster of a book, redolent of meta-narrative and deconstructionism and word and mind games reminiscient of the the ‘70s heyday of Donald Barthelme and Tom Robbins.
The Fruits of Risk
by Sina QueyrasBooks
Fig is the latest from London based poet Caroline Bergvall, whose text and sound pieces have been produced internationally.
