July/August 2006
The “July/August 2006” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 10, 2006.
Editor’s Message
Welcome to Bono’s Borough?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Water Fight at McCarren Park Pool
– By Sabine HeinleinNew Skool Journalism Workshop Investigates School: Part I of II
Crossing the Line: The Story of Fat Nick
– By Jesse SunenblickRace Is On for the Future of Central Brooklyn
– By Theodore HammBait & Switch: A View of the Cell Phone Ban, From the Bronx
– By Jen Weiss
Express
“All the Pauls”
– By Ronald J. GlasserGetting Trashed
– By Antonio LopezDISAPPEARED IN AMERICA
– By Naeem MohaiemenInside Denver
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsThe 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 OisteanuThe Anti-Aesthetic of Dada
– By Robert C. MorganSome Thoughts on Eva Hesse
– By Tom ButterEva Hesse: Language and What Remains
– By Naomi Spector
ArtSeen
Arlene Raven
– By Phyllis RosserReport from London
– By Sherman SamReport from Germany and Austria
– By Barbara WeidleSaviour Scraps
– By William PowhidaEva Lundsager
– By Stephanie BuhmannReto Boller
– By Jennifer RileyThomas Nozkowski
– By John YauAlex Katz
– By Roger WhiteSpacificity
– By John ReedContemporary Asian Arts Week
– By Ellen PearlmanElizabeth Cooper
– By James KalmInvisible Might: Works From 1965-1971
– By Shane McAdamsJenny Holzer
– By Thomas MicchelliOpen Air
– By Hrag VartanianPerestroika Revisited: Artists Against the State
– By David MarkusSasha Chermayeff and Chuck Bowdish
– By Ben La Rocco
Books
Hanif Kureishi with Hirsh Sawhney
You Are What You Eat
– By Johannah RodgersCynthia Carr’s Our Town
– By Sabrina SeeligArt: A Critical Life
– By Joscelyn JurichEmpty Barracks of the Mind
– By David VarnoIs Compassion the New Black?
– By Anne Pelletier
Music
Her Own Hell To Raise
– By Sharon MesmerA Temporary Spoken Dub Zone
– By José PaduaOff the Freak Folk Path
– By Tony CoulterBurned-Out Factories, Hem, and the Brooklyn Pastoral
– By Katy HenriksenTaking It Uneasy
– By Todd Simmons
Dance
Pied Beauty
– By Krista MirandaReal Life Burlesque
– By Linn EdwardsTo Bare or Not to Bare?
– By Carley Petesch
Film
French Noir and Flying Swordsmen
– By David N. Meyer and David WilentzBringing up Baby Beelzebub
– By Tessa DeCarloThe Death of the Subject
– By Nora GriffinJuly/August 2006
– By David N. Meyer and David WilentzUncontrolled Cinema: Albert Maysles
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeSummer 2006
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeBruce McClure with Brian Frye
Magic & Images/ Images & Magic
– By David Levi Strauss
Theater
Found in Translation: Ibsen/ Fosse at 59E59
– By Barton BishopFrom Kansas to the Ohio: The Ice Factory 2006
– By Miriam Felton-DanskyAfter the Fall
– By Heidi SchreckPolitics is a Drag
– By Jason GroteDivining Adam Szymkowicz
– By Sheila CallaghanJane Austen Reclaimed and Retold
– By Paul MenardDepends on the Audience
– By Timmy Wisconsin
Fiction
Two Guys Walk Into a Bar
– By Tim McLoughlinexcerpts from Threads
– By Jill MagiStories
– By Kate HallStories
– By Justin Taylor
Poetry
Heat Wave 1996, Flight Test
– By Lewis Warshsafe
– By Evie Shockleypoems from HUMAN/ NATURE
– By Stephen Ratcliffe
LastWords
Remembering Gilbert Sorrentino
– By Eugene Lim