October 2011
The “October 2011” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 3, 2011.
Editor’s Message
CITY NOTES: Thanks, Banks?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
One Decade In Brooklyn...
– By Jhumpa LahiriREPORT CARD
On Stealing from Kids– By Liza FeatherstoneLong Island's Wages of Sin
– By Eleanor J. BaderMARIJUANA ARRESTS
Gateway into the Criminal Justice System– By Harry LevineLessons of the Brooklyn Bounty
– By Rachel Signer
Express
Peacetime Soldier
– By Matthew IgoeWHEN ONE IS NOT ENOUGH
An Excerpt from Secrets and Wives– By Sanjiv BhattacharyaJoe, We Hardly Knew Ya
– By Gabriel ThompsonThe Sharpest Beach Bums You'll Ever Meet
– By Ross BarkanThe 1920s: The Good Times?
– By David Rosen and David RosenThirst For Debt
– By Allen WilcoxARE YOU WHAT YOU WEAR?
The Politics of Fashion– By David Rosen and David Rosen
Art
SILVIA KOLBOWSKI with Emily Apter
PHYLLIDA BARLOW with John Yau
KATIA SANTIBAÑEZ with Phong Bui
LAWRENCE WESCHLER with Jed Lipinski
MARY CALDER ROWER
(1939 – 2011)– By Jessica HolmesThe Beauty of a Social Problem
– By Walter Benn MichaelsALEX KATZ
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES
Pain by Numbers– By James KalmSUSAN ROTHENBERG
– By Thomas MicchelliNICOLA TYSON
– By Kara L. RooneyMIKE WOMACK Spectres, Phantoms, and Poltergeists
– By Shane McAdamsLINDA CROSS: Excavation Painting
– By Robert C. MorganMPA Directing Light onto Fist of Father
– By Litia PertaMake Way For DE KOONING
– By Terry R. MyersFREDERICK HAMMERSLEY: The Origins of Pictorial Space
– By Robert C. MorganANDREW MOORE Detroit Disassembled: Photographs
– By David St.-LascauxART = TEXT = ART curated by Elizabeth Schlatter
– By Joan WaltemathJENNIFER DALTON Cool Guys Like You
– By Abbe SchriberLetter from BERLIN
SERGEJ JENSEN Master of Color– By David RhodesANDREW GBUR, KELTIE FERRIS, JACKIE SACCOCCIO
– By Charles SchultzANN PIBAL & SIAH ARMAJANI
– By Charles Schultz
Books
LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
A Binary Star with Anonymous– By William S. NiederkornBEER IS TWO SUBWAY STOPS AWAY FROM MYSTICISM: SHARON MESMER with Bart Plantenga
FICTION
An Art Family– By Paul Charles GriffinFICTION
The Thing About Harry– By Andrea ScrimaFICTION
The Dangling Publication– By Meghan RoeFICTION
Romantic Interlude– By Molly GallentineESSAYS
Wandering Through Life's Wilderness– By Winston LenMEMOIR
Roots Music– By Tatiaana L. LaineRAPID TRANSIT
Image Makers in Photography and Poetry– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightFICTION
Art, War, and Captivity– By Zachary SlingsbyFICTION
Knife Music– By Bruce Seymour
Music
BILLY BRAGG: Content Over Style
– By KK KozikDon't Mind the Maggots
– By Dann BakerIn Exile on Main Street
– By Geoffrey ClarfieldOUTTAKES
– By Steve DalachinskyBeing Patti Smith
– By Allyson Polsky McCabe
Dance
LETTER FROM MANHATTAN: Death Takes A Holiday
– By Nancy Dalva2 KILOS OF SEA (After Deganit Shemy)
Increasingly More Movements For L.
– By Patricia MilderUS-THEM|THEM-US
– By Siobhan BurkeA Review of "Traces" (in comic strip form)
– By Jeremy Finch
Film
ONE IMAGE DOESN'T TAKE THE PLACE OF THE PREVIOUS ONE
Harun Farocki's Images of War (at a Distance) at MoMA– By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael RakesEye Washes: ROBERT BREER, 1926–2011
– By Tom McCormack"WE ARE ALL SCABS": Some Contradictions in U.S. Independent Film Culture
– By Donal Foreman
Theater
lifting the Curtain
Sound Designers: Robert Kaplowitz, Cricket S. Myers, and Matt Hubbs– By Gary WinterJESSICA SILSBY BRATER with KARA FEELY
Or, Object Collection Meets Polybe + SeatsMAC WELLMAN Explains, Or Doesn't Explain, What Is Near And What Is Far
– By Trish Harnetiaux and Matthew Korahais"Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?"
Canal Park Playhouse's revival of Joe Roland's On the Line– By Michelle MemranThe Mindscape of Septimus and Clarissa: Ripe Time Adapts Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
– By Patricia Laurence
Fiction
A Woman's Pains Never End
– By Fatima Yousef al-Ali | Translated from the Arabic by William M. HutchinsFor the Voice, For the Fragile Echo
– By Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. HutchinsTragic Strip
– By T. MotleySome Films in Which Kitty Dawson Appears
– By Sarah Falkner
Poetry
american fossil
– By Nico VassilakisTwo
– By Catherine Wagnerfrom Palm Lines
– By Ben FamaTINA CHANG with David St.-Lascaux
Art Books
Canal Zone Richard Prince Yes Rasta: Selected Court Documents, &c., &c
– By Andrea Neustein and Alex NeusteinJOAN MITCHELL, Lady Painter
– By John GanzTantra Song
– By Craig OlsonA NEW MAP OF ITALY: The Photographs of Guido Guidi
– By Adam BellAI WEIWEI'S BLOG: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
– By Justin Terry