May 2008
The “May 2008” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 6, 2008.
Editor’s Message
It Tolls for...
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Displacement at Greenbelt
– By Sarah Nelson WrightBig Hopes for a Slow Opera:
– By Nathan SchneiderThe Brooklyn Young Mother's Collective Counters Stereotypes About Teen Parenthood
– By Eleanor J. BaderWhen is a Gate Not a Gate?
– By Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper
Express
Arab-Americans Head for the Ballot Box
– By Aparna NarayananBranding New York
– By Miriam GreenbergThe Party of Michael Moore
– By Theodore HammA Party of Frauds? Glenn Greenwald with Theodore Hamm
A New China Syndrome
– By Lucia Green-WeiskelErrol Morris on Abu Ghraib
– By Ryan HagenRussia's Pepsi Generation Comes of Age
– By Ashley CleekChina's Young and Restless
Three Trillion and Counting
– By Michael BuschCompassionate Libertarianism?
– By Judy BermanInventing the "Maverick"
– By Katie RolnickPotgieter's Total Onslaught
– By Alex Freedman
ArtSeen
Abts' Traction
– By Sharon L. ButlerMarie Sivak - Barbara Hatfield
– By Becky BrownBrenda Goodman
– By Lynn CrawfordWhiting Tennis
– By Shane McAdamsAlice Kemp Madame Du Planchette de la Cloche
– By Warren FryRyan Schneider One Dog Night
– By Cora FisherLois Dodd Landscapes and Structures
– By Greg LindquistEarl Cunningham's America
– By Craig OlsonElka Krajewska BOUND: a projected walkthrough by Elka Krajewska, light score by Anthony McCall, sound score by Bunita Marcus
– By John ReedLaurent Ajina The Perfect Line?
– By Jillian SteinhauerJake Berthot
– By John YauKanemitsu in California during the 1960s and 1970s
– By John YauJoe Brainard The Nancys
– By John YauHelen Miranda Wilson
– By John YauSasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher The Searchers
– By Cassandra NeyeneschKim Dorland North
– By James KalmFauxhemia: The Same Old Same Old New York School
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleBien-U Bae
– By Robert C. MorganStephen Rosenthal 06--08 Paintings
– By Ben La RoccoMeaning in Art
– By Robert C. MorganOut of the Furnace: Martha Wilson's Feminist Critique
– By Valery OisteanuThe Very Public Life of Street Art
– By Hrag VartanianFresh Kills + Josh Azzarella
– By Josh MorgenthauBrooklyn Dispatches: Computer Brain, Or Human Stain
– By James KalmFive One Liners
– By Claudia La RoccoOur Myopia, Ourselves
– By Thomas Micchelli
Books
Glenn Head WITH AARON LEICHTER
NONFICTION: Homeland Mythology
– By Jim FeastNONFICTION: Atomic Childhood
– By Anna WainwrightNONFICTION: Decline and Fall
– By Christopher Leland WinksFICTION: The Gessen Game of History
– By Ralph ClareNONFICTION: Thumbs Up
– By Thomas BurkeNONFICTION: Power of Steel and Wood
– By Charlene ChoiFICTION: A Handful of Change
– By Meghan RoeFICTION: The Penitent is Mightier
– By David VarnoPoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightProse Roundup
– By Anitta Santiago, Fred Cisterna, and John Colasacco
Music
Dimensions in Music: Ears to the Ground...and in the Case of
– By Alan LockwoodOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyRemember Me--But, ah, Forget My Fate
– By David VarnoLike All, They Depend Upon Familiar Songs
– By Richard KostelanetzAmbulance LTD's Marcus Congleton with Grant Moser
Andy Friedman with Owen Roberts
Funky But Sleek: Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon (ECM)
– By Ellen Pearlman
Dance
Gallim Dance Company's I Can See Myself In Your Pupil: A Review
– By Margaret FuhrerThe Joy of Intimacy: The 22nd Annual Performance Mix Festival
– By April GreeneExtreme Behavior? Or Simply Queer?
– By Ryan TracyLaura Peterson's Electrolux: A Review
– By Ryan Tracy
Film
Remapping Hou Hsiao-Hsien
– By Ara OsterweilThe Unseen and the Unspoken: The Films of Lee Chang Dong
Less Talk, More Smoke
– By David N. MeyerShipwrecked (Again) on Apatow Island
– By Makenna GoodmanGo See Neil Patrick Harris Ride a Unicorn on Mushrooms
– By Mary HanlonSilent Ozu & Late Ozu box sets
– By David WilentzThe Dragon Painter
– By Lu ChenBlast of Silence
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
The Art of Countering Despair: Naomi Wallace
– By Betty ShamiehThe Art of Assimilation
– By Alan LockwoodNixon's Secretary STRETCHes: Truth, Tape and History
– By Gary Winter
Fiction
The Ditch
– By Terese SvobodaThe Ta-Da Girl
– By Terese SvobodaAfterthoughts of the Future, Premonitions of a Crime to Remember
– By Carl WatsonWounds and Contusions (Political Acts )
– By Mario BenedettiExiles (A Man in a Lobby)
– By Mario Benedetti and Harry MoralesExiles (Penultimate Resting Place)
– By Mario Benedetti and Harry MoralesThe Man at the Office
– By Pat MacEnultyFiction
– By Johannah RodgersMy Father
– By Ron KolmThe Algebra of Fiction
– By Mark Maxwell20 Tanks from Kasseldown
– By Charles BukowskiTragic Strip: If Only There Were Heroes Here
Hard Without Music
– By Charles Bukowski
Poetry
from Kundiman for the Condemned
– By Paolo JavierThe Human Machine: 30 Chances
– By Anna MoschovakisThe Fallout
– By Ann StephensonDead Black Men
– By Paul KillebrewFor Beth Ward
– By Paul Killebrew
LastWords
Selected Observations on Urban Fauna
– By Peter Wortsman