The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Men of La Mancha

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Almost Famous

  – By Will Bredderman

• Chasing New York City's Waterfalls

  – By Nadia Chaudhury

• Glee Club: How an elementary school choir found global fame.

  – By Sophie Gilbert

• Coney Island History Project Preserves the Past for Future Generations

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• Taking Back the Streets

  – By Aparna Narayanan

• McCarren Park Pool

  – By Trish Harnetiaux

• Transgenders Push Past Pageantry, Into Advocacy

  – By Caroline Jackson

Express

• Why I Am Going To Iran

  – By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou

• A Day at the Races The Belmont

  – By Sam Ferri

• WEB EXCLUSIVE: Why I am going to Iran

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• Bloomberg’s Blockin’ Out the Sun

  – By Matthew Vaz

• Inside the American Ruling Class: John Kirby And Libby Handros in conversation with Williams Cole

• Gonzo: The Life and Death of the Last American Patriot

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• South America's China Syndrome

  – By Nikolas Kozloff

• The Deal That Wasn’t

  – By Omair Ahmad

• Inside India

  – By Leigh Kamping-Carder

• Hope Amidst the Rubble

  – By Abby Margulies

• The Right to a Fair Trial

  – By James Arnett

• 2009 is Not the End

  – By Vincent Rossmeier

• Art and Lies

  – By Karen Shimizu

Art

• NANCY SPERO with Phong Bui

• A Tribute to Anne D'Harnoncourt (1943-2008)

  – By Phong Bui

• Robert Hullot-Kentor in Conversation with Fabio Akcelrud Durão

• Richard Artschwager in Conversation with John Yau & Eve Aschheim

ArtSeen

• Frida Kahlo

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Meeting Imi and Blinky at Dia: Beacon

  – By Sharon L. Butler

• Charles Juhasz-Alvarado Complicated Stories

  – By Cora Fisher

• Dumitru Gorzo In the Corner of My Eye

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• Asplundher Syndicate A Nelson Loses Three Heads... Apparently

  – By Warren Fry

• Erica Svec Same Enemy Rainbow

  – By Craig Olson

• Sigur Rós

  – By Jed Lipinski

• The Breakaway Republic of Bushwick

  – By Hrag Vartanian

• Francisco de Goya y Lucientes The Disasters of War

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Philip Guston Works on Paper

  – By John Yau

• Darina Karpov Infinitely Small Disasters

  – By Shane McAdams

• Absence and the Continuum of Nature

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Brooklyn Dispatches: Cool Island and Garden of Chill

  – By James Kalm

• Mark Fox Paper Bulls

  – By Lynn Crawford

• TRACKS: More Than a Pretty View

  – By James Trimarco

Books

• Photography: A World to Warhol

  – By Ellen Pearlman

• Poetry Roundup

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• Poetry: Rounding Out the Edges

  – By Jim Feast

• Poetry: Before- And After-Image

  – By Ben Tripp

• Fiction: Illness as Metallurgy

  – By Joseph Salvatore

• Fiction: Two Halves of a Whole

  – By Hana Malia

• Fiction: Who, You?

  – By Jessica Stults

• Nonfiction: Legends from the Levant

  – By Mia Eaton

• Nonfiction: Beauty, Old Faithful

  – By Marcela Silva

• Nonfiction: The Cold Hard Facts of Home

  – By Meghan Roe

• Nonfiction: How a Stroke Became Genius

  – By Robert Blaisdell

• Prose Roundup

  – By Ben Mirov, Mayra David, Jackson Taylor, and Tatiaana Laine

Music

• Middle-Aged Jesus: Lydia Lunch’s Second Coming

  – By Judy Berman

• Fleet Foxes: Pastoral Melodies

  – By Laura Flierl

• ¡Divertido! Dan Zanes’s ¡Nueva York! Brings a Guerilla Groove to Family Music

  – By KK Kozik

• In with the Out Crowd

  – By Peter Holslin

• Cyrill Schläpfer with Bart Plantenga

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Baye Kouyaté

  – By Aaron Lake Smith

Dance

• Denby and Balanchine: A Dance Critic’s Work

  – By Margaret Fuhrer

• Postcard from Montréal: Festival TransAmériques, May 22–June 5

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• It's What You Say and How You Say It

  – By April Greene

Film

• The Wackness is Dopeness

  – By Makenna Goodman

• Languid Winds and Daring Kimonos

  – By David Wilentz

• Tatsuya Nakadai Retrospective

  – By David Wilentz

• The Ennobling Embittering Struggle

  – By David N. Meyer

• (Native) American Neo-Realism

  – By David N. Meyer

• Smother Love

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Cyd Charisse: 1921-2008

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• Real and Imagined Kurdistan

  – By Camila de Onís

• Sci-fi thriller? Slasher movie? Comedy? No, its M. Night Shyamalan’s latest flop…

  – By Mary Hanlon

• Harmony Korine in Conversation with Amy Taubin

Theater

• The Meltdown Should Be Televised

  – By Justin Boyd

• You Will Remember What it Looks Like: Karinne Keithley

  – By Amber Reed

• A Play at Poolside: Caridad Svich's 12 Ophelias

  – By David G. Schultz

• Crease Patterns: Rajiv Joseph's Animals Out of Paper

  – By Kristoffer Diaz

• On Innocence and Depravity

  – By Jason Grote

Fiction

• The Envy of Nations

  – By Michael Washburn

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

• FICT/IONS

  – By Richard Kostelanetz

• The Anxiety of Influence

  – By David Brody

Poetry

• Historiography

  – By Cassandra Pantuso

• Nary a Soul

  – By Macgregor Card

LastWords

• Bloomberg’s Blockin’ Out the Sun

  – By Matthew Vaz