The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Welcome to Bono’s Borough?

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Water Fight at McCarren Park Pool

  – By Sabine Heinlein

• New Skool Journalism Workshop Investigates School: Part I of II

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• Crossing the Line: The Story of Fat Nick

  – By Jesse Sunenblick

• Race Is On for the Future of Central Brooklyn

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Bait & Switch: A View of the Cell Phone Ban, From the Bronx

  – By Jen Weiss

Express

• “All the Pauls”

  – By Ronald J. Glasser

• Getting Trashed

  – By Antonio Lopez

• DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA

  – By Naeem Mohaiemen

• Inside Denver

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• The Happiest Uprising on Earth

  – By Ryan Grim

Art

• Irving Sandler with Phong Bui and John Yau

• Whitfield Lovell with John Yau

• Seo-Bo Park with Robert Morgan

• DADA Lives @ MoMA New York

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• The Anti-Aesthetic of Dada

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Some Thoughts on Eva Hesse

  – By Tom Butter

• Eva Hesse: Language and What Remains

  – By Naomi Spector

ArtSeen

• Arlene Raven

  – By Phyllis Rosser

• Report from London

  – By Sherman Sam

• Report from Germany and Austria

  – By Barbara Weidle

• Saviour Scraps

  – By William Powhida

• Eva Lundsager

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Reto Boller

  – By Jennifer Riley

• Thomas Nozkowski

  – By John Yau

• Alex Katz

  – By Roger White

• Spacificity

  – By John Reed

• Contemporary Asian Arts Week

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• Elizabeth Cooper

  – By James Kalm

• Invisible Might: Works From 1965-1971

  – By Shane McAdams

• Jenny Holzer

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Open Air

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• Perestroika Revisited: Artists Against the State

  – By David Markus

• Sasha Chermayeff and Chuck Bowdish

  – By Ben La Rocco

Books

• Hanif Kureishi with Hirsh Sawhney

• You Are What You Eat

  – By Johannah Rodgers

• Cynthia Carr’s Our Town

  – By Sabrina Seelig

• Art: A Critical Life

  – By Joscelyn Jurich

• Empty Barracks of the Mind

  – By David Varno

• Is Compassion the New Black?

  – By Anne Pelletier

Music

• Her Own Hell To Raise

  – By Sharon Mesmer

• A Temporary Spoken Dub Zone

  – By José Padua

• Off the Freak Folk Path

  – By Tony Coulter

• Burned-Out Factories, Hem, and the Brooklyn Pastoral

  – By Katy Henriksen

• Taking It Uneasy

  – By Todd Simmons

Dance

• Pied Beauty

  – By Krista Miranda

• Real Life Burlesque

  – By Linn Edwards

• To Bare or Not to Bare?

  – By Carley Petesch

Film

• French Noir and Flying Swordsmen

  – By David Wilentz and David N. Meyer

• Bringing up Baby Beelzebub

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• The Death of the Subject

  – By Nora Griffin

• July/August 2006

  – By David Wilentz and David N. Meyer

• Uncontrolled Cinema: Albert Maysles

  – By Williams Cole

• Summer 2006

  – By Williams Cole

• Bruce McClure with Brian Frye

• Magic & Images/ Images & Magic

  – By David Levi Strauss

Theater

• Found in Translation: Ibsen/ Fosse at 59E59

  – By Barton Bishop

• From Kansas to the Ohio: The Ice Factory 2006

  – By Miriam Felton-Dansky

• After the Fall

  – By Heidi Schreck

• Politics is a Drag

  – By Jason Grote

• Divining Adam Szymkowicz

  – By Sheila Callaghan

• Jane Austen Reclaimed and Retold

  – By Paul Menard

• Depends on the Audience

  – By Timmy Wisconsin

Fiction

• Two Guys Walk Into a Bar

  – By Tim McLoughlin

• excerpts from Threads

  – By Jill Magi

• Stories

  – By Kate Hall

• Stories

  – By Justin Taylor

Poetry

• Heat Wave 1996, Flight Test

  – By Lewis Warsh

• safe

  – By Evie Shockley

• poems from HUMAN/ NATURE

  – By Stephen Ratcliffe

LastWords

• Remembering Gilbert Sorrentino

  – By Eugene Lim