May 2009
The “May 2009” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 7, 2009.
Local
In the Spirit of Paine (and Pleasure, too!)
– By Theodore HammWho Pays for the MTA?
– By Nicholas JahrSaying "Hi" in Bed-Stuy
– By Alexa MillsCity Home Sharing Program Promotes Aging in Place
– By Eleanor J. BaderLights On in Fort Greene
– By Theodore Hamm
Express
A Place Called Home
– By Issie LapowskyLetter from Senegal
– By Michael BuschDancing with the Master: The life and music of Manny Oquendo, 1931–2009
– By Alan LockwoodFilmmaker As Socialist Anthologist
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeA Brief History of Violence
– By James ArnettRemembering Vonnegut
– By Ben TraversLopate's Sontag
– By Jessica LoudisThatcher's Leftovers
– By Elizabeth MonaghanA Glance Backward While Driving Over the Edge
– By Anne Pundyk
ArtSeen
Peter Saul, New Paintings
– By John YauPaul Mogensen and Stephen Rosenthal, Jump: Selected Paintings
– By Jim LongChromophobia
– By Ben La RoccoJack Bush, Works on Paper
– By Robert C. MorganMartin Kippenberger, The Problem Perspective
– By Valery OisteanuJames Hyde, UNBUILT
– By Shane McAdamsLouise Fishman
– By Sharon L. ButlerMickalene Thomas, She's Come Undone!
– By Kimberly LammNicolas Carone: Paintings from 2008-2009
– By Emily WarnerThe Generational: Younger Than Jesus
– By Thomas MicchelliIshmael Randall Weeks
– By Thomas MicchelliLetter From SEGOVIA
– By Karen SchiffLetter From LONDON
– By Sherman SamRichard Allen Morris, Morris Code, works from 1957-2007
– By Kara L. RooneyJene Highsten, Lines in Space
– By Joan Waltemath
Books
Anthology: A Lot To Live Up To
– By Paul Charles GriffinFiction: Greater World Systems
– By J.W. McCormackNonfiction: Correspondence From The Struggle
– By Win ClevengerFiction: Constraints Of Quirk
– By Jon CurleyMemoir: Remix
– By Ben MirovFiction: Telling No Tall Tales About Africa
– By Anis ShivaniRapid Transit
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightTokens
– By Dan Fall, Dan Fall, and Renee E. D'Aoust
Music
A Happy Marriage: American Jazz Meets Shona Dance Music
– By Peter HolslinJack Smith, Les Evening Gowns Damnées and Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island (Table of the Elements, 1997)
– By David ShirleyIndie Americana
– By Katy HenriksenRecession Special: The Roots Alter the Job‑Space Continuum
– By Drew GardnerOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyNinjasonik Hits the Road (with Fellow Brooklyn Rockers Japanther)
– By Megan Martin
Dance
Celebrating Ninety Years of Merce Cunningham on April 16, 2009
– By Mary Love HodgesDancing? "It's Awesome"
– By M.J. ThompsonYoung Ballerina Brings Fresh Interpretations to ABT
– By Mary Love HodgesPomp's Perils : World Premiere of Rioult's The Great Mass at the Joyce, April 2009
– By Dalia RatnikasNederlands Dans Theater II at the Joyce April 8-11, 2009
– By Erika EichelbergerBook Review: Reading Dance, Edited by Robert Gottlieb
– By Susan YungKeeping it Kamp: Keigwin Kabaret at Symphony Space's Thalia Dance, April 2009
– By Dalia RatnikasBook Review: Merce My Way, Photographs by Mikhail Baryshnikov
– By Susan YungDeganit Shemy and Company Dance Theater Workshop, April 16-18
Mandance! HORSE's Bones at the Joyce
– By April Greene
Film
Taking The Blame
– By David N. MeyerAre You Jealous Yet?
– By Lisa Moricoli-LathamThe Blonde
– By Mary Hanlon"You Sin in Thinking Bad About People--But, Often, You Guess Right"
– By David N. MeyerDVD Culture
– By David N. Meyer
Fiction
Dupes, Hoaxes, and Pranks
– By Susan DaitchAn Excerpt from Robert Walser's The Tanners
– By Robert WalserReruns Rezoomed: a Serial Novel
– By Jonathan BaumbachTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Four Poems
– By Anthony McCannSix Poems
– By Buck Downs
LastWords
Twitter and Me
– By Mary Conrad