Dec/Jan 2007–08
The “Dec/Jan 2007–08” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 14, 2007.
Editor’s Message
The Brooklyn Rail Person of the Year 2007
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
A Mural of Déjà Vu
– By Shell FischerHow Far Is Brooklyn From Manhattan?
– By Johannah RodgersEating on the Run: Foraging in New York's Parks
– By Paula CrossfieldLawsuit Claims Discrimination At Court House
– By Eleanor J. BaderFrom Nigeria to America, in Search of God
– By John Soltes
Express
After Mailer
– By Kathy PerutzOf Skin and Snoods
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeCrocodile Hunting at JFK
– By Sabine HeinleinChild of War, A Memoir
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsRobot Nation
– By Linh DinhMain Street's Whitewashed Windows
– By David Varno
Art
Stephen Antonakos in Conversation with Phong Bui
Green Hermeticism: David Levi Strauss in conversation with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Christopher Bamford
Werner Kramarsky and the Art of Collecting
– By Nora GriffinAllan Graham in Conversation with John Yau
Profile: Will Ryman
– By Maxwell HellerTraduttore Traditore
– By Dore Ashton
ArtSeen
Seurat's Secret
– By Sanford SchwartzAlex McQuilkin: Joan of Arc
– By Thomas MicchelliLand Grab
– By Shane McAdamsHigh Times for Lawrence Weiner
– By Jeremy SiglerThe Geometry of Hope
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleLalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
– By Stephanie BuhmannArt & Psyche: The Freudian Legacy
– By Valery OisteanuEdward Burtynsky: Quarries
– By Greg LindquistJudith Vivell
– By John ReedNyehaus becomes Indica
– By Nora GriffinRobert Barry: NOT THE ART OF WAR, BUT ART AND WAR
– By Robert C. MorganPerforma 07
– By Ellen PearlmanNancy Haynes: Threshold
– By Joan WaltemathBe Blank Consort
– By Warren FryMating Minds: David Byrne and Evolutionary Psychologist Geoffrey Miller Ask Why Humans Make Art
– By Jed LipinskiRichard Prince and the American Girl
– By Sharon L. ButlerWade Guyton
– By John YauDavid Reed
– By John YauDrawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne and the Old Masters
– By John YauShiva Linga Paintings
– By Craig OlsonCy Twombly
– By Ben La RoccoAnthony Caro: New Galvanized Steel Sculptures
– By Hrag Vartanianrobbinschilds
– By Litia PertaJudith Supine
– By Erin LindholmBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James KalmLetter from London
– By Andrew Bick
Books
FICTION: All Scenes Lead to Each Other
– By Ben TrippBack to Eden
– By Erica WetterFiction: Collective Memory
– By David VarnoNonfiction: Brooklyn in Time and Memory
– By Janine YuFiction: A Literary Wonderland
– By Karen ResterNonfiction: Film Fixer, Epic Nectar
– By Meghan RoeAmanda Stern with Lisa Kunik
– By Lisa KunikPoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightProse Roundup
– By Book Staff
Music
Audition and Its Discontents
– By John S.W. MacDonaldIs Piracy Killing Independent Music?
– By Alex CummingsPrefabulous
– By David ShirleyA Steal at Any Price
– By Todd SimmonsIndie Baroque
– By Katy Henriksen
Dance
Gesel Mason Performance Projects: A Review
– By Corey HarrowerTrisha Brown with Susan Yung
Film
I'm So Bored
– By Sarahjane BlumIs 1969 OK?
– By Ben PopperTwo Places At Once
– By Sophie GilbertSwords, Sandals and Sex
– By Sarah Kessler
Theater
Jordan Harrison, Making Language Necessary
– By Deborah SteinWe Must Go On: Re-directing Beckett
– By Alan LockwoodA Studio in the Domestic Strip: Oren Safdie with Roger Babb
Windows Onto the World: New Works in Translation
– By Caridad Svich
Fiction
Shameless
– By Douglas GloverTheatre of Incest
– By Alain Arias-Misson
Poetry
René Char - Resistance in Every Way
– By Mary Ann CawsThe Companions in the Garden
– By René CharHere's to the Snake!
– By René CharJacquemard and Julia
– By René CharNot to be Understood
– By René CharThe Shark and the Seagull
– By René CharThe Library is on Fire
– By René CharHypnos Moon
– By René CharLeaves of Hypnos
– By René CharFort Chadwijk
– By Chadwick Dalton, Jimbo Blachly, and Lytle Shaw