The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• The Rail's PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2010

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Will the DOE Test for PCBs?

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• A Note from Dore Ashton

  – By Dore Ashton

• Brooklyn’s Comic Book Stores: A Pilgrimage

  – By E. Tammy Kim

• Return of a Palace

  – By T. K. Danovich

• Rebound

  – By M. J. Corey

• The Hard Nut and a Stiff Body

  – By E. Tammy Kim

Express

• Smithsonian: Just Put the Art Back

  – By Michael B. Keegan

• QURRATULAIN HYDER: Voice of the South Asian Frontier

  – By Hirsh Sawhney

• REPORT FROM INDONESIA: Frontline in the Fight Against Climate Change

  – By Robert S. Eshelman

• MACEDONIAN MYTHMAKING: MILČO MANČEVSKI with Conor McGrady & Dario Šolman

• A Holiday Letter From Santa Fe

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• Taibbi’s Shark Hunt

  – By Michael Terry

• More Than a National Pastime

  – By Sara Versluis

• In the Manor of Lord Bryson

  – By Allen Wilcox

Art

• PETER SAUL with Irving Sandler and Phong Bui

• JOE ZUCKER with Phong Bui

• KENNETH FRAMPTON with Carlos Brillembourg

ArtSeen

• PETER SAUL Fifty Years of Painting / SVEN LUKIN Paintings, 1960 – 1971

  – By John Yau

• PAUL THEK Diver

  – By Valery Oisteanu

• PAUL THEK Diver

  – By Maxwell Heller

• JOHN LEHR Stet

  – By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata

• Tumescent Follies, Inflated Money, and Kitschy Sex

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• TRACKS: Stephanie Brody-Lederman’s Art of Whispers, Traces, and Fleeting Bons Mots

  – By Edward M. Gómez

• TRACKS: Reuben Kadish, The Anti-Hero of American Modern Art

  – By Jill Conner

• The Crude and the Rare

  – By Kara L. Rooney

• STANLEY LEWIS, HANS HARTUNG, MARGRIT LEWCZUK, and PETER ACHESON

  – By Ben La Rocco

• ANSELM KIEFER Next Year in Jerusalem

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• JILL NATHANSON's Quiet Vision

  – By Joan Waltemath

• FRANCIS CAPE The Other End of the Line

  – By Charles Schultz

• Alternative Histories

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• PAT STEIR The Nearly Endless Line

  – By Sharon L. Butler

• BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Those Damned Weeds

  – By James Kalm

• GEDI SIBONY

  – By Greg Lindquist

• Marksmen and the Palimpsests

  – By Cora Fisher

• ART BOOKS IN REVIEW: How We Talk About Chuck Close

  – By Benjamin Gottlieb

• MARCO BREUER The Nature of the Pencil

  – By Shane McAdams

• 179 Canal/Anyways

  – By Anne Sherwood Pundyk

• Letter From PORTO

  – By Sherman Sam

• JORGE QUEIROZ

  – By Corina Larkin

• Letter From BERLIN

  – By David Rhodes

Books

• KILLING IN THE NAME OF: Notes From the Chicago Indie Lit Scene

  – By Ben Tanzer

• SUSAN SHAPIRO with Nicolle Elizabeth

  – By Nicolle Elizabeth

• A NOBLE GESTURE How and Why We Read and Write: DAVID ULIN with Audrey Gray

  – By Audrey Gray

• Hushmoney Presents Rock Nostradamus: NICK KENT

  – By Dr. Shathley Q

• Out From Under Don

  – By Mac Barrett

• Unfettered

  – By Blake Butler

• BEN MIROV'S Ghost Machine

  – By B.C. Edwards

• Hear No, See No, Read No Evil

  – By Christopher Vola

• To Air Is Human

  – By Rayyan Al-Shawaf

• RAPID TRANSIT

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• A World to Lose

  – By Ida Chung

Music

• Diggin’ the Gaps: How Ahmad Jamal Re-Tooled Jazz

  – By Colin Fleming

• Read This

  – By George Grella

• New! Improved! Mainstream! Conservative!

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• Environmental Studies

  – By Dominic Umile

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• The End of the End-of-Year List

  – By Katy Henriksen

Dance

• Collaborative Beginnings

  – By Christine Hou

• Garth Fagan Dance Turns Forty

  – By Michelle Vellucci

• Existence and the Body, Three Ways

  – By Patricia Milder

• Dancing Dulce Et Decorum Est

  – By David St.-Lascaux

• REBECCA DAVIS’s What I’m Saying Is Born From The Weather

  – By Thom Donovan

Film

• “I’m sorry, the screening starts when?” The 2010 New York Film Festival

  – By David N. Meyer

• Nocturnal Epic For a Dark Era

  – By Lu Chen

• Revolutionary Homicide

  – By Sarahjane Blum

Theater

• Mothers Courage: Brooklyn Theater Mamas

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• The Everyday Art of Staying Alive: Honey Brown Eyes at The Working Theater

  – By Andi Stover

• The Broken Lines of Tommy Smith

  – By Matthew Paul Olmos

Fiction

• Character and Fitness: a serial novel

  – By Jason Flores-Williams

• Night Crime

  – By Emmanuel Bove, translated from the French by Alyson Waters

• Shitty Micky

  – By Michele Witchipoo and John Reed

• Tragic Strip

  – By T. Motley

Poetry

• Two

  – By David Mills

• Vitale in School

  – By Anna Vitale

• Depictions of a Screen Door, after James Castle

  – By Thomas Devaney