The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• The Rail’s Person of the Year, 2005

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Family Feud: Will the Real Satmar Please Stand Up?

  – By Jenny Clevstrom

• I Want to Re-Home Your Pet

  – By Marjory Garrison

• A Benediction

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• What's for Dinner

  – By Marjory Garrison

• A Dividing Wall

  – By Megha Bahree

• Rich Man, Poor Man: A History of Fort Greene

  – By Carl Hancock Rux

Express

• Why I love The Pittsburgh Steelers

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• My Begrudging Admiration for the Indianapolis Colts

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Impossible Dreams

  – By Stephen Duncombe

• Putting NYC Writers into Stone

  – By Williams Cole

• Bonfire of the French Vanities

  – By Francois Cusset

• Xmas at the Q

  – By JT Gottlieb

• Reading Osama

  – By Mridu Chandra

• The Nature of the System/It’s the System Not the Man: Eugene Jarecki with Williams Cole

• Katrina vanden Heuvel with Theodore Hamm

• A Riposte to Retort

  – By Paul Mattick

• In Texas a Model of Criminal Justice (Honest)

  – By Gabriel Thompson

• Country and the City

  – By Steve Strunsky

Art

• Dore Ashton with Phong Bui & Deidre Swords

• The Painted World P.S. 1

  – By Roger White

• Stephen Shore with Noah Sheldon & Roger White

• Hwang Young Sung: Painter from GwangJu

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Performa 05

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• A Tribute to Philip Pavia (1912-2005)

  – By Phong Bui

• Pierre Soulages with Robert C. Morgan

ArtSeen

• Nancy Spero: The Drawing Center & Galerie Lelong

  – By David Levi Strauss and Jon Bird

• Mediating the Void Gabriel Orozco

  – By Joan Waltemath

• Nils Karsten

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Daniel Zeller

  – By Jason Murison

• Luc Tuymans

  – By James Kalm

• Egon Schiele

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• The Long Ride of Larry Poons

  – By John Zinsser

• Bob Thompson

  – By Ben LaRocco

• Shirin Neshat

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• If It’s Too Bad To Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION

  – By Francis Raven

• Judy Simonian

  – By Shane McAdams

• John Graham

  – By James Kalm

• Three Generations of Abstract Painting: Alice Trumbull Mason, Emily Mason, & Cecily Kahn

  – By Roger Kamholz

• Aron Namenwirth and Jason Van Anden

  – By Ben LaRocco

• Richard Pousette-Dart

  – By Jim Long

Books

• Adding Up

  – By Win Clevenger

• Melissa Rossi with K.M. Ferebee

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• The Songs Are My Lexicon

  – By Nora Griffin

• Fiction: Rock & Roll Diary

  – By Arthur Vaughan

• Art: We Are All Connected

  – By Rachel Syme

• Investigative Reporting: Squatter Nation

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• New York Stories: Acquainted With the Night

  – By Alexander Nazaryan

Music

• Weird War: In the Belly of the Beat

  – By Todd Simmons

• Untouchable Is Something to Be: The Rise and Continued Rise of Against Me!

  – By Justin Taylor

• The Double: Loose in the Area by Fred Cisterna

  – By Fred Cisterna

Dance

• Searching for Virgin Territory

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Dancing on the Rail

  – By Vanessa Manko

Film

• Classy Class War, Debonair Existentialism: The Holiday Musicals of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• Empty Metal Jacket: Jarhead's Dereliction of Duty

  – By Patrick Levell

• Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, The Blues

  – By David N. Myer

• The Next Way to Watch?

  – By Williams Cole

• The Wild, Wild East

  – By David Varno

Theater

• Bloodlust at Red Bull: The Revenger's Tragedy

  – By Wendy Weisman

• Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas: Tight Embrace

  – By Kristoffer Diaz

• Two Headed Calf with Roger Babb

• Out of the Darkness: Apparition

  – By Richard Fulco

Fiction

• THE SAL MINEO PRESERVATION SOCIETY

  – By Albert Mobilio

• According to YJ, The Origin of the Long Island City Kinoclub

  – By Eugene Lim

• Frank

  – By R.M. Berry

• Instructions for Sebastian

  – By Angela Fajardo

Poetry

• from the "Apple Anyone" Sonnets

  – By Leonard Schwartz

• From IOVIS 3: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment

  – By Anne Waldman

• The After-Dinner War

  – By John Ashbery

LastWords

• An Immaterial Message

  – By Andrew Farkas