The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• The Brooklyn Rail’s Person of the Year 2008

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• French Street Artist Dreams of New Starts in Brooklyn

  – By Alexis Buisson

• Willamsburg’s Poet Laureate: Yom Tov Ehrlich

  – By Michael Casper

• A FIERCE Fight in the West Village

  – By Lucas Mann

• Y-Act: Mexican-American Students Fight for Educational Equity

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• The Underground Economy

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Express

• What Kind of New Deal?

  – By Richard Wells

• Dan Burley’s Original Handbook of Harlem Jive (1944)

  – By Theodore Hamm

• When You Are Locked in the Trunk of a ’69 Bonneville

  – By Emily DeVoti

• Still Doing It: Coming to a Sex Shop Near You

  – By Michelle Memran

• From Laos to Brooklyn: Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath in conversation with Williams Cole

• Poland Here, and Poland Now

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Andrzej Wajda: Poland and the Screens of History

  – By Alan Lockwood

• Restoring the Republic, Bacevich’s The Limits of Power

  – By Becky Ohlsen

• Only the Beginning, Filkin’s The Forever War

  – By Lester Pimentel

• Dershowitz at War: The Case Against Israel’s Enemies

  – By Abby Margulies

• Superman from the South, Rodriguez’s Che: A Graphic Biography

  – By Nisa Qazi

• Memories of Great Books, Beam’s A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books

  – By Ian Crouch

• A Forgotten Man of the Resistence, Paulhan’s On Poetry and Politics

  – By Jessica Loudis

• Fair Play: Lilly Ledbetter’s Story and Workplace Discrimination

  – By Alexis Clements

Art

• Terry Winters with Phong Bui, David Levi Strauss, and Peter Lamborn Wilson

• Pipilotti Rist with Phong Bui

• Cordy Ryman with Phong Bui

• A Tribute to Lawrence Fane 1933–2OO8

  – By Marshall N. Price

ArtSeen

• Katia Santibañez New Work

  – By Phong Bui

• Ad Reinhardt’s Emblematic Drawings In Their Moment

  – By Joseph Masheck

• John Altoon: Paintings and Works on Paper 1963-1968

  – By Craig Olson

• Josephine Halvorson

  – By Litia Perta

• Tibor Freund: Motion in Paintings

  – By Craig Olson

• Neo-Maternalism: Contemporary Artists’ Approach to Motherhood

  – By Sharon L. Butler

• Ali Banisadr

  – By Greg Lindquist

• Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton

  – By Jeremy Sigler

• Nasreen Mohamedi: The grid, unplugged

  – By John Yau

• Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone

  – By Anne Byrd

• Who's in Charge?

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Ronald Bladen: Sculpture of the 1960s and 70s

  – By Ben La Rocco

• Chuck Webster

  – By Shane McAdams

• Bettina Sellmann: Taina . cosmogony . make your own paper dragon

  – By Cassandra Neyenesch

• Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• Letter From London

  – By Sherman Sam

• Michelangelo, the Man and the Myth

  – By Brandt Junceau

• José Parlá: Layered Days

  – By Joan Waltemath

• Zhang Xiaogang

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Rudy Burckhardt: New York, N. Why? 1937–1940

  – By Roger Van Voorhees

• Lutz Bacher: ODO

  – By Liz Wing

• Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897 – 1909

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Cutting Realities: Gender Strategies in Art

  – By Kimberly Lamm

• George Tooker: A Retrospective

  – By Maxwell Heller

• Kazimira Rachfal: i’ll go there, gladly

  – By Laura Hunt

• Sa Suk-won

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Divine Retribution

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Does Invidiousness Go With The Territory?

  – By Dore Ashton

• Reply to Irving Sandler

  – By Michael Corris

Books

• Marc Estrin with Ben Mirov

• FICTION: Nothing is Quite Forgotten Anywhere

  – By Mac Barrett

• FICTION: Accidents Will Happen

  – By Oisin Curran

• FICTION: The Art of Communication

  – By Meghan Roe

• FICTION: On the Road Again?

  – By Erin Heath

• Prose Roundup

  – By Jim Feast, Clinton Krute, Jim Feast, and Kevin Riordan

• Poetry Roundup

  – By David Varno, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, and Roger Van Voorhees

Music

• The Biggest Weapon in Northern Uganda

  – By Peter Holslin

• Punk, with Occasional Glockenspiel

  – By Matthew Ozga

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• Chad and Jeremy: State of the Reunion

  – By Dann Baker

• Is New York the New Second City?

  – By Kurt Gottschalk

• Brought to You by the Letter G

  – By Grant Moser

• Just a Singer in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology (Lost Highway)

  – By Julie Kocsis

• Mass Destruction at the Met: Dr. Atomic at the Metropolitan Opera

  – By Ellen Pearlman

Dance

• Pina Bausch Returns to BAM with Bamboo Blues

  – By Emily Macel

• Childhood Play as Wild as She Remembers

  – By Beatrice Barbareschi

• Garth Fagan’s Phone Tag, Thanks, and Things? No, Thanks.

  – By Dalia Ratnikas

• Puzzlingly True

  – By Beatrice Barbareschi

• Dance Films Association’s 37th Annual Dance on Camera Festival

  – By Mary Love Hodges

• Epistolary Therapy: Sixty

  – By Simone Larson

• One Human Being at a Time: A Visit to Elizabeth Streb’s S.L.A.M.

  – By April Greene

Film

• Stockholm Syndrome

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• Tanned, Rested, Tormented, and Repressed

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• Hypnotized in Global Scenarios

  – By Lu Chen

• Shine a Light

  – By Mary Hanlon

• In Dire Straits

  – By Camila de Onís

• Apoorva Lakhia with David Wilentz

• Melville, Assayas and a Box of Classics

  – By David N. Meyer

Theater

• Kane in Babel: notes

  – By Elana Greenfield

• A Planetoid of Self: Mac Wellman

  – By Barbara Cassidy

• Rumble in Brooklyn: The Civilians’ Brooklyn at Eye Level

  – By Aurin Squire

• Sibyl Kempson and the Secret Life of Potatoes

  – By Amber Reed

• Acting Strangely: A Light Lunch with My Brother

  – By Jed Lipinski

Fiction

• Danielle and the Dyer

  – By Mark Du Mez

• The Only Mortal

  – By Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud

Poetry

• from De la Bronx

  – By Greg Fuchs

• from Clock, Deck, and Movement

  – By Rodrigo Toscano

LastWords

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley