September 2006
The “September 2006” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 2, 2006.
Editor’s Message
The lessons of 9/11?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Counting Off Upstate: Just Say Moo
– By Ezekiel EdwardsFrom Breuckelen to Brooklyn: Writers Craft a Compelling--and Fun--Borough History
– By Eleanor J. BaderWill One More Domino Fall in Williamsburg?
– By Leah KregerRumble in Brooklyn
– By Ellen MoynihanWayne Barrett with Williams Cole
Pedal Power vs. the NYPD
– By reZz A
Express
Left on the Inside: Robert Scheer with Theodore Hamm
Just Another War?
– By Anat BiletzkiAll Quiet on the Eastern Front by Retort
– By RetortTaking the Long Way Home from Lebanon
– By Lynn Love“On the Trail in Oregon: Is the Party Over?”
– By Doug CordellTorture Doesn't Just Have to be Rabid Canines and Rape Pyramids Anymore
– By Marika Josephson“Movies are All People Know” An Interview With Ken Jacobs
– By Jim KnipfelExperiential Lit: Grégoire Bouillier with Yann Nicol Translated by Violaine Huisman and Lorin Stein
A Begrudging Tribute to Mickey Spillane
– By Tim McLoughlinAllende Lives
– By Alina Reyes
Art
Ron Gorchov with Robert Storr and Phong Bui
A Tribute to Connie Reyes-Corrigan (1929–2006)
– By Bill Jensen, Margrit Lewczuk, Diane Palomba, and Gabriel HeldA Life in Theory: Sylvère Lotringer with Joan Waltemath
Alison Elizabeth Taylor with John Yau
ArtSeen
A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
– By Lauren RossMike Kelley Green Depths And Los Angeles 1955-1985, Naissance d’une Capitale Artistique
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleDaughters of Dada
– By Valery OisteanuThe New Landscape / The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art
– By John YauReport from London
– By Sherman SamInto Me / Out of Me
– By Thomas MicchelliJulie Monaco
– By Stephanie BuhmannRudy Burckhardt
– By Ben La RoccoHans Richter
– By David MarkusRosa Loy
– By James KalmZaha Hadid
– By Cynthia EardleyClare Gasson
– By Shane McAdamsReport from Germany
– By Barbara Weidle
Books
Knockin' on Heaven's Door: Bob Dylan and the Adolescent Sublime
– By Charles BernsteinLiving Things
– By William CorbettPolitics: Celebrity of War
– By Katy HenriksenMore
– By Jane KingBeat for Beat
– By Douglas MansonThe Truth in Winkie
– By Veronika SheerEnvironment: Coal Junkies
– By Erica WetterDawgone Shaggy
– By Gary Winter
Music
Echo and Reverb
– By Dann BakerGlam with Fangs: Bowie’s Diamond Dogs Reissued
– By Paul GrimstadDimensions in Music: From Mambo to Salsa, Part Five, IP Hilton Ruiz—Learning with los Grandes—Plying New Terrain
– By Alan LockwoodZe Cat's Meow: Pamela Z: " New Strategies with DJ Spooky" at Symphony Space, the Cutting Room, and the Stone
– By Ellen PearlmanTropicalia Retriumphant: Os Mutantes Come to New York
– By Todd SimmonsSounds, Paths, Radios: Notes on Stars Like Fleas
– By David Varno and Erin Durant
Dance
Dance Crush: Batsheva Dance Company at the Lincoln Center Festival
– By Catherine MasseyWinter Voyage/The Rite of Spring: Emanuel Gat Dance
– By Krista Miranda
Film
It’s a Mann’s World
– By Jenny SchlenzkaSuspend My Disbelief, Please
– By David N. MeyerIdealism on Crack
– By Tessa DeCarloGirls on Film
– By Sarahjane BlumPrinces and Assassins
– By David Wilentz and Sara MayeuxNew Maps of Heaven
– By Ioannis Mookas
Theater
YOU GOTTA HAVE ♥ Ken Urban's I ♥ KANT
– By Isaac ButlerA Great Name: A Remembrance of Lloyd Richards
– By Lonnie CarterNothing That Is So Is So: Young Jean Lee’s Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven
– By Richard FulcoRevolution at the Gates: Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee's New Downtown Now
– By Jason GroteMac Makes an Opera
– By Kathryn WalatBe Like Lloyd
– By Aurin SquireA Trustworthy Theater: REDEYE: A New York-Ljubljana Translation Think Tank
– By Amiel MelnickDOWNTOWN IS A STATE OF MIND CUNY’s Prelude ‘06
– By Jake HookerThe Rise, Fall, and Rise of Iphigenia
– By Chiori Miyagawa
Fiction
The Hard-Boiled Egg
– By Eugéne IonescoThe President's Mouth
– By Shelley JacksonMILO- A Conversation Between Christine Schutt and Diane Williams
– By Diane Williams and Christine Schutt
Poetry
First Italian Prose (1954)
– By Jennifer Scappettone and Amelia RosselliTen Truisms and a Lie, Sitcomposite: A Cento, Are You a Racist?
– By Ravi Shankar
LastWords
A Leap Second
– By Michael Martone