April 2015
The “April 2015” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 2, 2015.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Editor's Note
– By Bob HolmanHow Kora Was Born
–SAMANTHA THORNHILL
Ode to GentrificationADAM FALKNER
Ode to SeagullJON SANDS
If You Were On That TrainELANA BELL
Elegy for Nina SimoneSYREETA MCFADDEN
Untitled For CharlesYURI MARDER
Endangered Language PortraitsEndangered Language Alliance
Iguanazul
SAMUEL JABLON & STEFAN BONDELL with Bob Holman
The State of Our Union
People's State of the Union Sonnets
– By Marilyn Nelson and Luis J. RodriguezQ&A with Adam Horowitz
NIKHIL MELNECHUK with Bob Holman
Sono Kuwayama
Joan Grubin
PHONG BUI with Bob Holman
The Hammer of Justice
– By Bob Holman
ArtSeen
Letter from SINGAPORE
– By Hearne PardeeIn the Studio: Photographs
In the Studio: Paintings– By David CarrierPeter Williams
– By Sara RoffinoJOANNE GRÜNE-YANOFF Between the Skin and the Prop
– By Jonathan GoodmanLAURA KINA Blue Hawai'i
– By Jonathan GoodmanHITO STEYERL
– By Maya HarakawaCORDY RYMAN Chimera 45
– By Phong H. BuiTheory Mapping in the Interregnum: LISA DAVIS, New Paintings
– By Joan WaltemathEMILY MASON Recent Paintings
– By Phong H. BuiALFREDO JAAR Shadows
– By Ann McCoyCLAIRE FONTAINE Stop Seeking Approval
– By Liam ConsidineThe Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
– By Christopher GreenMARSHA COTTRELL
– By Taney RonigerGIUSEPPE PENONE Indistinti confini / Indistinct Boundaries
– By Adele TutterGUNTHER FORG Lead Paintings
– By David RhodesSAMARA GOLDEN The Flat Side of the Knife
– By Kate LiebmanMICHAEL SNOW A Group Show
– By Chloe WilcoxADAM MAGYAR: KONTINUUM
– By Samuel FeldblumUnder the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa--Art and Film
– By Simone KrugMoving Image Department and Stanislav Kolíbal
– By William CorwinExperiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence
– By Jonathan FinebergTATIANA TROUVE Desire Lines
– By Sarah GoffsteinHADIEH SHAFIE Surfaced
– By Hovey BrockJoyce Pensato
– By Tatiana Istomina
Books
Unsentimental Education
– By Keenan McCrackenALICE EVE COHEN with Caroline Leavitt
This Is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry
– By Sharon MesmerSeeking Control and Connection
– By Catherine LaSotaMARK WISNIEWSKI with Daniel Woodrell
The Crossdresser's Secret
– By Brooks AdamsPainglorious
– By Madeline GresselHybrid Beings
– By Jill DehnertGuilty as Charged
– By Katharina SmundakThe Uncertainty Principle
– By Geoffrey YoungJaime Clarke in Conversation with David Bezmozgis, Maud Casey, Ramona Ausubel, Hannah Pittard, Rebecca Makkai, Charles Bock, Brock Clarke, David James Poissant, and Lydia Millet
The Glory of Grammar
– By Sara WebsterPatrick Phillips in conversation with Hirsh Sawhney
– By Hirsh SawhneyGame of Scribes: Chaucer and the Invention of the Maximalist Narrative
– By J.T. PriceSecrets and Lives
– By Marina PetrovaIn the Dark without Searchlights
– By Maya SolovejRADICAL ALTERITY
MIKE YOUNG with Elizabeth TrundleTime Ages In a Hurry: Stories
– By John DominiWHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CANNABIS:
Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian with Amy DenesonPeter Pan: the Ultimate Alt-Bro
– By Ashley P. Taylor
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaRecommended New and Recent Books on Music
Informative, Delightful, A Little Depressing
– By Marshall YarbroughTime Cycles
– By George GrellaLife of the Party Music
– By Kevin GoinsArtistic License
– By Richard KlinOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
THE NAKED SKELETON
Some Notes on the Danse Macabre– By Madison MainwaringHOUSES WITHOUT MASTERS
Part 1 of 2 on "Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets"– By Siobhan BurkeGILLIAN WALSH: STRUCTURE PERVERT
– By Jaime Shearn Coan
Film
TOWARDS A TIRED CINEMA
Tsai Ming-Liang's Rebels of the Neon God– By Paul FeltenTHE PASSENGER:
J.P. Sniadecki's The Iron Ministry– By Max GoldbergBASIM MAGDY with Xin Zhou
To All the Pomegranates We Lost Along the Way
– By Yasi AlipourBad City Nocturne: Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
– By Lauren Wallach
Theater
Digging Through Sin:
Ally Collier Tunnels Down Underland– By Ben GassmanLemon Andersen's ToasT goes Public
– By Susan Soon He Stanton
Fiction
from Living Up
– By Matt NelsonTransvestite
–Approach of the Word
–from Miransù
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Poetry
Three
– By Andrew GorinSeven
– By Kevin KillianMock Draft
– By Jim BehrleThree
– By Maryam ParhizkarThree
– By Nada GordonHigh as a Georgia Pine
– By Brandon Brown
Art Books
The Choreographic by Jenn Joy
– By Jess WilcoxInvisible City and Night Walk by Ken Schles
– By Adam Bell
Field Notes
Editor's Note
– By Paul MattickA TALE OF TWO AGES
STEVE FRASER with Gary RothThe Great Wheel
– By Phil A. NeelOn Movies, Dynasties, and Hope
– By Jose Tapía Granados