The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• From Blacksburg to Baghdad...

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Tenants Fight McMansions, Challenging Landlords to Keep Their Homes

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel

  – By Maciej Ceglowski

• West Brighton Beach Memoirs

  – By Samantha Berkley

• Schooling Alone Together

  – By Amanda Darrach Filippone

Express

• On Imus and the Airwaves

  – By Ken Freedman

• Walkin’ to New Orleans

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• RANT RHAPSODY: Memories of San Quentin

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Notes on Fallujah

  – By Dore Ashton

• Rudy Giuliani in Drag Smooching Donald Trump: Perspective on a Clip Gone Wild

  – By Williams Cole

• The Grassroots Video Pioneers

  – By Dara Greenwald

• Bolivian Noir: Juan de Recacoechea with Caitlin Esch

Art

• Katherine Bradford with Chris Martin and Peter Acheson

• A Tribute to Sol Lewitt (1928-2OO7)

  – By Dorothea Rockburne

• Wolf Kahn with David Kapp and Robert Berlind

ArtSeen

• Stephanie Campos, Lady Shadow: Grid Machine

  – By Nora Griffin

• Rick Klauber: Shim Paintings

  – By Cassandra Neyenesch

• Ann Mikolowski: Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror

  – By Natalie Haddad

• Brooklyn Dispatches

  – By James Kalm

• Jo Baer

  – By Carrie Moyer

• Olga Chernysheva: Isle Of Sparks

  – By Jen Schwarting

• Lincoln Capla

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Tala Madani: Smoke and Mirrors

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Dana Schutz

  – By Jeremy Sigler

• Andrea Belag: New Paintings

  – By Craig Olson

• Philip Pearlstein

  – By James Kalm

• Richard Oelze: Paintings & Drawings from the 1950s & 1960s

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• Victoria Neel

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Liz Deschenes: Registration

  – By Shane McAdams

• 50 years of Helvetica

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• Lee Bontecou: Vacuum-formed Sculptures and Related Drawings

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Prelude to a "Criticism" of the Future

  – By David Markus

• Susan Bee

  – By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

• Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Letter from London

  – By Sherman Sam

Books

• Fiction: Runes of Ruins

  – By Marina Budhos

• Florence Falk with Erica Wetter

• The Life and Death of Translation

  – By Sabrina Seelig

• Fiction: Haunted Man

  – By Brandon Proia

• Nonfiction: Killer Dreams

  – By John G. Rodwan Jr.

• Fiction: Song of the Post-Colonial Self

  – By Vijay Seshadri

Music

• Against the Grain of Unconventionality

  – By Sergei Tcherepnin

• Limping with the Stooges in Washington Heights

  – By Todd Simmons

• Battles: Biting the Master’s Hand

  – By Paula Crossfield

• Newer, Weirder America:

  – By Katy Henriksen

• Time, Loss, and the Blues

  – By Peter Watrous

Dance

• DTW’S The Nothing Festival: Not Much

  – By Krista Miranda

• Tharp/Sugar Salon/Gwirtzman at the Miller Theater

  – By Carley Petesch

Film

• Eye on the Prize

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Transgression a’Go-Go

  – By David N. Meyer

• Brute Force 1947 Criterion Collection

  – By David Wilentz

• A Black and White Movie

  – By Guy Greenberg

• True Confessions

  – By Karl O'Toole

• Machuca

  – By Naomi Daremblum

Theater

• A Ripe Time: Rachel Dickstein's Betrothed

  – By Eliza Bent

• Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb

  – By Jason Grote

• Something Old, Something New: Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl’s Bird Eye Blue Print

  – By Justin Boyd

• "The Fat Lady Will Sing with Bells On": Jenny Schwartz's God's Ear

  – By Heidi Schreck

Fiction

• The Accidental Oracle

  – By Kurt Strahm

• The Josephus Problem

  – By Jacques Roubaud

• Flushing Av

  – By Tony Antoniadis

• THE CARCASSES

  – By Raymond Federman

Poetry

• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

  – By Nicholas Bredie

• Poetry

  – By Alex Lemon

• Nine Poems

  – By Angela Jaeger

• Diary/Blog

  – By Tan Lin

LastWords

• The Divine Plan: Notes for an Unperformable Mise-en-Scène

  – By Andrew Farkas