The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• "Some Guy's Idea:" MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow Creates Existential Crisis--Resolves with Cronyism

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• What's For Dinner

  – By Marjory Garrison

• Inside the Hackworld: How a Do-Nothing Became a Lame Duck

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Immigration Mess

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

• Baghdad Reunion: Tale of a Kidnapping

  – By Christian Parenti

• How to Get to Gitmo

  – By Aimee Molloy

• "It's You, Stupid."

  – By Gabriel Thompson

• But What If the Truth Ain't Funny?

  – By Williams Cole

• CHAos Creates Change

  – By Micah Maidenberg

• March on Washington, September 24, 2005

  – By Thomas Micchelli and Margaret Micchelli

Art

• Elizabeth Murray

  – By Phong Bui and Robert Storr

• Marcel Dzama: The Course of Human History Personified at David Zwirner and Jon Pylypchuk: I have thought deep into this trouble at Friedrich Petzel Gallery

  – By Daniel Baird

• Ann Reynolds and Eve Andrée Laramée

  – By Joan Waltemath

• Bill Bartman (1946-2005)

  – By Eyal Danieli, Chuck Close, Dorothea Rockburne, Jeffery Sturges, Merill Wagner, Eyal Danieli, and Amanda Guest

• RAINER GANAHL with Paul Mattick

• Japanese Anime, Expo 2005 and the Future of the World

  – By Ellen Pearlman

ArtSeen

• Adam Cvijanovic

  – By Katie Stone Sonnenborn

• Rita Ackerman

  – By Roger White

• The Art of 9/11

  – By Lyra Kilston

• Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Maureen Cavanaugh

  – By James Kalm

• Lara Schnitger

  – By Nick Stillman

• Bruce Pearson

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Paloma Varga Weisz

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Ryan Wolfe, Mark Esper, Dam Stuhltrager

  – By James Kalm

• John Paul Villegas

  – By William Powhida

• Joseph Karoly

  – By Shane McAdams

• Post-Everything

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Dan Torop

  – By Jason Murison

• Kim Jones

  – By Tomassio Longhi

• Enemy Image

  – By William Powhida

• Engaging Ephemera

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• Krzystof Wodiczko

  – By Dore Ashton

• Chris Martin

  – By John Yau

Books

• Siddhartha Deb with Hirsh Sawhney

• Memoir: An Outsider's Journey

  – By David Varno

• Art: Bohos in Paradise

  – By Michael Calderone

• Mythology: True Norse

  – By Pete L'Official

• Social Criticism: Deconstructing Race in America

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• Fiction: The Wandering Convict

  – By Mac Barrett

Music

• The Soul Stirrer: The Legacy of Sam Cooke

  – By Norman Kelley

• Neblung Price Third

  – By Dann Baker

• “A Limited Edition of One” In Conversation, sort of, with David Berman

  – By Justin Taylor

• Come Hell or High Water The New Orleans Jazz Fest Soldiers On

  – By Todd Simmons

Dance

• Inserting a Bit of Nature into our own Asphalt Jungle: Jennifer Monson / Bird Brain takes its final flight

  – By Jessica Weiss

• Breaking Ground: Dance Charrette

  – By Kathryn Enright

• Beverly Blossom: The Incomplete Lament of an Old Dancer.

  – By Nicole Pope

Film

• Be True to Your School

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• Anomie, Italian Style

  – By David N. Meyer

• Junebug: Culture Collision

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

Theater

• In Dialogue: suffer little children: The Sturm und Drang of David Adjmi

  – By Heidi Schreck

• Nelson Rodrigues: The pornographic angel comes to NYC

  – By Sarah J Townsend

• Poor Imitations

  – By David Kilpatrick

• Local Stops

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Fiction

• Four Short Stories

  – By Kenneth Bernard

• Chip Off The Old Block

  – By Lynda Schor

Poetry

• Night

  – By Pura López Colomé

• Electronic Desires

  – By Brian Kim Stefans

• Twilight Suite

  – By Nicholas Bredie

LastWords

• LAW AND ORDER SUV: Special Urban Vice

  – By Scot Crawford