The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Help Haiti Now

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• The Church of the Divine Heckle

  – By Reverend Billy

• ON THE ISLE OF ROCKS

  – By Sabine Heinlein

• JOSHUA DERR: Bearing Witness to Gentrification

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

Express

• The Brooklyn Rail’s Player of the Year 2009

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Report from Jacmel

  – By Jacques Africot

• A Rookie Quarterback, Columnist, and Two Footballs

  – By Jill Magi

• FALLOUT

  – By Katy Bolger

• Dreams

  – By Toni Cela

• RUDY WURLITZER with Theodore Hamm

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Dreams From Obama

  – By Richard Wells

• Inside The Hive Mind

  – By Christopher G. Moore

• Your Words Have Iron in Them

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• A Rotten Legacy?

  – By Stuart Schrader

• Docs in Sight: Coming to a Theater Near You—but Only for One Night

  – By Williams Cole

• In Mammon We Trust

  – By Daniel Colucciello Barber

• At the Crossroads

  – By Riddhi Shah

• Laying the Groundwork

  – By Jenny Hendrix

• Inside the Inbox

  – By Alex Gallo-Brown

• The Chabon Method

  – By Kaitlin Bell

• Cut Him Off

  – By Christopher Michel

Art

• LYNDA BENGLIS with Phong Bui

• NORBERT SCHWONTKOWSKI with Phong Bui

• DAVID ANFAM with John Yau

• SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD with John Yau

ArtSeen

• Roni Horn aka Roni Horn

  – By R. H. Lossin

• WALID RAAD: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World/Part 1_Volume 1_Chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• RAILING OPINION: Batman, Bernini and Young Romantics

  – By Lisa Corinne Davis

• NICOLE EISENMAN

  – By John Yau

• Letter from BERLIN: FRANK BADUR, Why Pattern?

  – By David Rhodes

• Letter from LONDON: JON THOMPSON, Paintings from The Toronto Cycle

  – By Sherman Sam

• MARILYN MINTER, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

  – By Terry R. Myers

• SAARINEN: ONE OF US?

  – By Joseph Masheck

• ALBERS’ RECORD JACKETS: Doing an Artful Job

  – By Joseph Masheck

• Picasso and the Allure of Language

  – By Kimberly Lamm

• ARSHILE GORKY: A Retrospective

  – By Emily Warner

• ANNE TRUITT: Perception and Reflection

  – By Anne Byrd

• NORMAN BLUHM: A Retrospective of Works on Paper, 1948-1998

  – By Craig Olson

• THE BAUHAUS IDEA: How To Live with Art

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• FOOTLOOSE AMONG THE FUNCTORS

  – By Shane McAdams

• Metamorphosis Victorianus

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• Alias Man Ray

  – By Ben La Rocco

• URS FISCHER: Marguerite de Ponty

  – By Kathleen Massara

• Social Curiosities: An exhibition of new work by the 2008-2009 Fellows of the New York Academy of Art

  – By Sharon L. Butler

Books

• FICTION: Tragedy with a Gentle Hand

  – By Bruce Seymour

• FICTION: Soviet Caesars and State Raincoats

  – By Kseniya Melnik

• NON-FICTION: The Head Dead

  – By Christopher Vola

• FICTION: Stairs and Flourishes

  – By John Madera

• NON-FICTION: Down for Account

  – By Christopher Vola

• FICTION: It Was Better Not to Be Born at All

  – By Cole Larsen

• RAPID TRANSIT

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• TOKENS

  – By Tatiaana Laine, Renee E. D'Aoust, Nils Stolpe, Cody Upton, and Amber Benham

• In Conversation with H. M. Naqvi

• NONFICTION: Are We Cool?

  – By Anis Shivani

Music

• The 2009 New Yorker Festival: A MINI-MUSIC SAMPLER

  – By Daniel J. Kushner

• “HOW WILL I GET PAID?” Music Industry Execs Discuss Payment Models, Pirates, and Monetization at the CMJ Music Marathon

  – By Mimi Luse

• MET 2.0

  – By George Grella

• The Ouija Board of Sonic Energy Douglas Henderson: “MUSIC FOR 100 CARPENTERS” at Pierogi Gallery

  – By Jamian Juliano-Villani

• Outsider Looking In DANIEL JOHNSTON: IS AND ALWAYS WAS (Eternal Yip Eye)

  – By Katy Henriksen

• More Songs About Love, Desire, and Restlessness PAOLO CONTE: PSICHE (ECM Records)

  – By Alessandro Cassin

• MAYER HAWTHORNE: Not Through Playin' the Fool for Love

  – By Audrea Lim

Dance

• PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: A Celebration of Dance at the 92nd Street Y

  – By Evan Namerow

• BILL T. JONES: Serenade/The Proposition

  – By Dalia Ratnikas

• HIP-HOP CARNY: Teaching New Dancers Old Tricks

  – By Joey Lico

• CAVE New York Butoh Festival—The Butoh-Kan Phase October 23–November 25, 2009

  – By Erika Eichelberger

• ONWARD TO 2010

  – By Mary Love Hodges

• A Man's World: CHARLIE’S ANGELS AT THE KITCHEN, October 22-24

  – By L.J. Sunshine

• Preview THE GOOD DANCE—DAKAR/BROOKLYN AT BAM, December 16th-19th

  – By Dalia Ratnikas

• Traveling in Time, to the Pear Garden: HAN-TANG YUEFU ENSEMBLE’S THE FEAST OF HAN XIZAI AT THE JOYCE THEATER, November 3-8

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• Replay as Revivification: PARADES & CHANGES, REPLAYS AT DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP, PERFORMA 09, November 18th, 2009

  – By Thom Donovan

Film

• DEPTH IN A DECADE OF DISTRACTION: The Twenty Best Films

  – By David N. Meyer

• When Men Were Thin

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• BAD MOVIE, SILLY LIEUTENANT

  – By Malcolm Wyer

• BEYOND THE ABSURD: Roland Tavel and Andy Warhol

  – By Mary Hanlon

• CINEPHILIA: Port of Call Busan

  – By Christopher Bourne

Theater

• Out of Body Experiments: LISA D’AMOUR AND KATIE PEARL with Erin Courtney

  – By Erin Courtney

• LEN JENKIN’S THE DREAM EXPRESS: The Outlaw Lounge Act Returns

  – By Gary Winter

• Why Are We Sitting in the Same Room? CHAUTAUQUA!

  – By Trish Harnetiaux

• The Personal Historical: ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH

  – By Kathryn Walat

• The Excellent Fopperies of the World: YOUNG JEAN LEE TAKES ON LEAR

  – By Alan Lockwood

Fiction

• RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel

  – By Jonathan Baumbach

• VLAD

  – By David Varno

• OLD MAN

  – By Nancy Lynn Weber

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

Poetry

• hrzn

  – By Marcella Durand

• Silent Pictures Recognize the World II

  – By Wanda Phipps

• Two

  – By Robert Hershon

• geese

  – By Evan Kennedy

• Los Angeles Series

  – By Joshua Baldwin

• Motherfuckerless Brooklyn

  – By Ron Singer