July/August 2009
The “July/August 2009” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 9, 2009.
Editor’s Message
Brooklyn Counts!
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Don't Believe the Hype about Mike
– By Tom AngottiNew York Abortion Fund Expands Women's Choices
– By Eleanor J. BaderIs Williamsburg's Boom a Bust? Ward Dennis with Williams Cole
A Local Journey: Daniel Goldstein with Brian Carreira
Fight to Stay
– By Cyrus C. MorganSon2Mother
– By Kevin PowellWoman vs. the Machine: Jo Anne Simon
– By Theodore Hamm
Express
Leaving Tehran
– By Nasinine T.An Epistemic Shift in Iran
– By Hamid DabashiKa-Pow! Bang! Crash! Down Goes Another Bubble! Doug Henwood in Conversation with Christian Parenti
The Railway Aunty from Delhi Noir
– By Mohan SikkaThe Revenge of Print
– By Eric ObenaufIn Print We Trust
– By Sarah HromackReflections
– By Jonathan BlitzerThe East, The West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
– By Kaitlin Bell
ArtSeen
Letter From DUBLIN
– By Sherman SamLetter From BERLIN
– By David RhodesThe 53rd Venice Biennale
– By Cora FisherBrooklyn Dispatches Bushwick Biennial: Venice It Ain't
– By James KalmReflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video
– By Kimberly LammWelcome to Gulu
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleJonathan Schipper: Irreversibility
– By Sharon L. ButlerKatrin Sigurdardóttir
– By Shane McAdamsDan Graham: Beyond
– By Jen SchwartingJack Youngerman: Triads/Quadrads
– By Craig OlsonPatty Chang: The Product of Love
– By John YauJeremy Sigler: Sculpture
– By Ben La RoccoWiser than God
– By Joan WaltemathMichelangelo's First Painting
– By Thomas MicchelliTainted Love
– By Kara L. RooneyJames Ensor
– By Valery OisteanuAiring the Spirits: Song Dong and Zhao Xiang Yuan's Material World
– By Robert C. MorganAlbert Oehlen
– By Ben Tripp
Books
Susan Bernofsky with Jed Lipinski
Nonfiction: Large and Largesse
– By Robert C. MorganFiction: Are You Experienced?
– By Meghan RoeNonfiction: When the Living's Good
– By Polly RosenwaikeNonfiction: All That's Gilded Isn't Gold
– By Paul DevlinPoetry: The Problems of Pink and Green
– By Jackson TaylorRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightTOKENS
– By Charles Bernstein, Caroline Seklir, Paul Charles Griffin, Raina Lipsitz, and Cole LarsenFiction: The Show That Smells
– By Bruce SeymourFiction: Circle Takes The Square
– By Nicolle ElizabethFiction: Proof You Can't Escape Yourself
– By Caroline SeklirFiction: Yet Another Family Drama
– By Raina Lipsitz
Music
Materializations of the Immaterial
– By Sergei TcherepninButch Morris with Alessandro Cassin
Outtakes
– By Steve DalachinskyJohnny B. has a Patch
– By Joseph SchaferA Whisperer's World
– By Alex Littlefield
Dance
Alvin Ailey Celebrates 50 Years at BAM
– By Erika EichelbergerDance Theater in Small Spaces
– By Mary Love HodgesBelly's Beginnings: A Flash Course in Arabic Dance
– By April GreeneTrey McIntyre Project: A Nourishing Breath of Fresh Air from Boise
– By Mary StaubRain Train Transcript Cube
– By Roger Van VoorheesFTA Montréal: Jell-o Molds, Crucifixes, Sleeping Bags
Considered and Constructed
– By Dalia Ratnikas
Film
But For What You Are Not
– By David N. MeyerSynchronicity, Dysfunction, Spectacle
– By David WilentzElegy and Its Resonance in a Vanishing World
– By Lu ChenNew Films from Kenneth Anger
– By Mary HanlonFortune and Gory, Kid. Fortune and Gory
– By Sarahjane BlumAttack of the Girlymen
– By Tessa DeCarloMeta-Documentary of a Meta-Documentary
– By Malcolm WyerFilm Going On Steroids
– By Marian MasoneOn the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton
– By Keith SanbornA Tribute to Hollis Frampton
– By Jonas MekasLashings of the Old Ultra-Violence
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
Around a Table with a Lot of Friends: Daniel Talbott with Mark Schultz
Bullseye Brooklyn: Sponsored by Nobody's Right on Target
– By Brook StoweFelipe Alfau Doesn't Want You to See This
– By Trish HarnetiauxExcerpts From the Three Adaptation of Locos: A Comedy of Gestures by Felipe Alfau
– By Richard Toth, Normandy Sherwood, and Scott AdkinsDowntown Drama: The undergroundzero festival at P.S. 122
– By Suzy Evans
Fiction
The Hunting Party
– By Michael WashburnOn the Nisqually
– By Mark Du MezSometimes a Pet
– By A.D. JamesonRERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
– By Jonathan BaumbachTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyMORE OPENINGS AND CLOSINGS
– By Richard KostelanetzAn excerpt from the novel Grit
– By George Makris
Poetry
And neither is there pain
– By Alan DaviesPollock Pouring
– By Clayton EshlemanEileen Myles with Jeremy Sigler
– By Jeremy Sigler