The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Local

• City to Immigrants: English Only!

  – By Williams Cole

• CHARLES BARRON with Theodore Hamm

• Latinos Transform the Hamptons

  – By Carissa Katz

• We Just Call Him Marty

  – By Kevin Plumberg

• Manhattan's Loss Is Our Gain

  – By Adriana Velez

• A Festival Grows in Brooklyn: Celebrate Brooklyn Turns 25

  – By Shanti Crawford

Express

• The Right to Party

  – By Neal Pollack

• Viva Rudy?

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Stop Them—Before It’s Too Late

  – By Shelley Pasnik

• BikeSummer is Near...

  – By Matt Chastain

• The Plunder of Iraq: John Malcolm Russell with Jim Long

• Exiquette: Your Own Private Ex-Men

  – By Lisa Rosman

Art

• Photography in Brooklyn: The Williamsburg Workshop

  – By Paula Trotto

• Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women’s Art in Poland

  – By Megan Heuer

• The Madness of Ordinary Material

  – By Daniel Baird

• BRUCE PEARSON with Chris Martin

• A Tribute to Rudolph Burckhardt

  – By Phong Bui and Vincent Katz

• The Seeing Word: An Interview with Robert Whitman

  – By Erik La Prade

• Safe & Sexy

  – By Sarah Hughes

ArtSeen

• Comic Art

  – By James Kalm

• Exit Biennial: The Reconstruction

  – By William Powhida

• William Pope.L

  – By Nick Stillman

• Greg Stone

  – By Rachel Youens

• James Little

  – By Benjamin La Rocco

• Water, Water

  – By John Hawke

• Grounds

  – By William Powhida

• Andy Yoder

  – By Benjamin La Rocco

• Jonas Mekas and Rosa Valado: A to C Jumpin Over B

  – By Tomassio Longhi

• Bill Jensen

  – By Michael Brennan

• John Walker

  – By Rachel Youens

• Wolf Kahn

  – By Tomassio Longhi

Books

• Soft Skull’s New Faces

  – By Madeleine Baran

• JEDEDIAH PURDY with Charles Wilson

• Notes on Priapism

  – By K.P. Greenberg

• Silky Fetishes

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• Geisha, A Life

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• Inspire Me, Baby

  – By Vanessa Manko

• All Day Permanent Red

  – By Bradley H. Kerr

• Regarding the Pain of Others

  – By John Reed

• Under the Shade of a Myrtle Tree with Horace

  – By Michelle Tsai

Music

• Radiohead: Hail to the Thief

  – By Sam Carter

• Harmonic Convergence

  – By Nick Stillman

• Evolution: The Streets and Nada Surf

  – By Grant Moser

• Dimensions in Music

  – By Alan Lockwood

• The Thipplewhite Diaries

  – By Randolph Lewis

• The Astral Sounds of Greg Weeks

  – By Fred Cisterna

Dance

• Monsters & Mirrors: Heavy at Play

  – By John Merchant

• A Festival Grows in Brooklyn

  – By Shanti Crawford

• MARK MORRIS with Vanessa Manko

• LIZ GERRING and RUTH BAGUSKAS

  – By Alan Lockwood

Film

• Canadian Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin

  – By Randolph Lewis

• The Shape of Things, Indeed

  – By Lisa Rosman

• Food For Sharks: A Personnel Tribute to Stan Brakhage

  – By Peter Acheson

• Media That Matters Film Festival

  – By Williams Cole

Theater

• A Playwriting Workshop with Mac Wellman, Errant Aphorist of the Avant-Garde

  – By Madeleine George

• Little Theater/Theatre

  – By Anne Marie Healy

• A Short Essay on Memories I Have And Still Remember of My Time in the Big Theater/Theatre

  – By Pinky Harris

• Yaggoo

  – By Young Jean Lee

Fiction

• Beyond Hope: part 2 and 3

  – By Elizabeth Reddin

• John Yau with Donald Breckenridge

• Summer (Been)

  – By Jean Frémon

• Celebrity Wettings, The Slider, and Scenes in the Dark

  – By Garrett Caples

• Fortification Resort

  – By Lynn Crawford

• excerpt: Complete Fiction

  – By Serge Fauchereau

• The Master Builder

  – By Albert Mobilio

Poetry

• Hay Beach Poems: Two Excerpts

  – By Lila Zemborain

• for Stan Brakhage

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Face Remnant

  – By Jeremy Sigler

• Eventual Darling (), and The Missionary's Pupil

  – By Susan Briante

• Accordion Chamber Music

  – By Raphael Rubinstein

• The Hotel This Weekend

  – By Amy King

LastWords

• The Rape of the Cock

  – By Rosalind Cary