September 2012
The “September 2012” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 3, 2012.
Editor’s Message
What You See
– By Bill Berkson
Local
The Dirty Business of Cleaning Cars
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Changing Face Of Park 51
– By Sabine HeinleinI was a Brooklyn Townie
– By Dave MandlBucking Brooklyn's Machine
LINCOLN RESTLER with Williams ColeCITYNOTES
– By Theodore Hamm
Express
SLOUCHING TIGER:
A Letter from Ireland– By Michael HeaneyWTF, AMERICA!
– By Paul McLeanThe Torture of Bradley Manning
– By Chase MadarA Life of Reflection & Invention
GORE VIDAL (1925-2012)– By Jonah RaskinWalden in a Wired World
– By R. H. LossinOut of Africa
– By Allen WilcoxCity at War
– By David Rosen and David RosenCheat Sheet
– By Max NeumeyerIn Defense of the Difficult
– By Orli Van Mourik
ArtSeen
VIVIEN BITTENCOURT
In the Arms of Time– By Ron HorningJOSEF ALBERS in America: Painting on Paper
– By Charles SchultzCHARLES LONG Pet Sounds
– By Desiree GonzalezJEAN-BAPTISTE-SIMÉON CHARDIN "Chardin's Visor"
– By John ElderfieldSome Shorter Lines for MARTIN PURYEAR
– By David Levi StraussPaving Paradise Part II
– By James KalmCHRISTOPHER KURTZ Longhand
– By Robert C. MorganALEXIS MYRE Orchid Petal and Small Twig of the Upper Hemisphere: "Ojo de Dios"
– By Anne WaldmanA Panorama Considered as a Conversation (or the Other Way Around)
– By Carter RatcliffEUGEN SCHÖNEBECK, "Saxon Landscape" (1964)
Eugen Schönebeck 1957 – 1967– By Robert StorrSeeing Blindness
NICOLAS POUSSIN, "Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun"– By David CarrierNICOLAS POUSSIN, "The Abduction of the Sabine Women," (1633-34)
– By Nathlie ProvostyJANET CARDIFF and GEORGE BURES MILLER The Murder of Crows
– By Kara L. RooneyMARSDEN HARTLEY Soliloquy in Dogtown
– By Vincent KatzThe Nobody in a Field of Abstraction
OTTO DIX, "Wounded Solider"– By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveOn the Drawing Cases at Musée Gustave-Moreau, Paris
– By Jarrett Earnest"The Poetics of Wattage, after Alighiero e Boetti"
ALIGHIERO BOETTI Game Plan– By Raphael RubinsteinTAUBA AUERBACH, "How to Spell the Alphabet"
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language– By Diana Seo Hyung LeeStanding Still and Walking in Kassel
dOCUMENTA (13)– By Terry R. MyersOn MICHAEL BERRYHILL's "Sensitive Parlour Ghost"
Incidental Western– By Phong H. BuiPut Neon, Bright Light
JAMES TURRELL, "Milk Run"– By Jeff SanfordRAOUL DE KEYSER To Walk
ANDRÉ BRETON, PAUL ÉLUARD & SUSANNE MUZARD: 33 Collages
– By Valery Oisteanu
Books
POETRY
Making Panic– By Jeremy BensonFICTION
Going Off the Deep End– By Bernard LumpkinBENJAMIN TAYLOR In Conversation with Adam Fitzgerald
PETER M. WHEELWRIGHT with Scott Cheshire
JOHNNY TEMPLE with Justin Courter
CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER with Mandy Keifetz
FICTION
A Double Life– By Paul Charles GriffinART
Deep in the Heart of Art– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightFICTION
Alices Through the Looking Glass– By Jesse Tangen-MillsCRITICISM
Dyer About Tarkovsky About Desire– By Mary HanlonPOETRY
Ethos, Ethics– By Matt Reeck
Music
Cage at 100
– By George GrellaTime and Materials
– By KK KozikEverything but the Girl
– By Kate SilverWho's Keeping Score?
– By Kurt GottschalkFOUNTAINS AND FIREWORKS
The New York Philharmonic's Concerts in the Parks– By David St.-LascauxOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
JONAH BOKAER with Nancy Dalva
French Disconnection
– By Ryan WenzelWriting About That
– By Siobhan Burke
Film
BOILING BLOOD
Giallo Fever! at Anthology Film Archives– By Benjamin Schultz-FigueroaVOLUMES AND PRESSURES
DEBORAH STRATMAN with Aily Nash– By Aily NashHALLUCINATIONS OF THE REAL
Hybridity and Experimentation at the 2012 Festival del Film Locarno– By Leo GoldsmithCOLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH DEATH
David France's How To Survive a Plague– By Steve Macfarlane
Theater
Alone in the Interstices with Craig Lucas
– By Winter MillerWelcome to the Fearless Indie Theater Universe. Population? Growing Strong
Episode Two: London-Town, UK!– By Crystal SkillmanBall Slapping on a Pile of Trash with Charlotte Miller
– By John Michael DiResta
Fiction
The Great Ape
– By Christopher SorrentinoThe Stars at Midday
– By Peter ButtonInterregnum
– By Bishakh SomGoodbye Again
– By Nick AbadzisSuspect Device--The Newspaper Comic
– By Josh BayerCries for Help
– By Gary SullivanJam Dream
– By Scott TeplinGraphica Verité
– By T. Motley
Art Books
LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Return of the Repressed
– By Courtney FiskeJournalism and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
– By Bill KartalopoulosUnfolded
– By Sandeep Bhuller