Dec/Jan 2003–04
The “Dec/Jan 2003–04” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 17, 2003.
Editor’s Message
Editor's Letter: The Issue is Free Speech
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Learning from Miami: NYC Activists Beware!
There Goes the Neighborhood: Luxury Condo Threatens to Destroy Fort Greene's Historic Charm
– By Corrie PikulA Clinton Hill Condo's Secret Past
– By Claire HoffmanLetitia James Takes Office
– By Signe ShackelfordConey Island: A 21st-Century Attraction?
– By Arthur VaughanInside Brooklyn's Russian Bathhouses
– By Todd Chandler
Express
Out of the Blue: My Experience in the NYPD
– By Yvette WaltonBallots and Bloodshed: An Election Update from Guatemala
– By Writers BlocDown the Up Escalator Operation Tribute to Freedom: A Triumph of the Will
– By Ryan GrimA World Apart: Writing From the Front
– By John Crawford
Art
Ryszard Wasko: Bedtime Stories
– By Robert C. MorganThomas Nozkowski with Chris Martin
David Levi Strauss with Joan Waltemath
Harlem Arts: A Faux Renaissance?
Between The Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics
– By Daniel BairdA Reader's Response to "Life at the Vermont Studio School"
– By Wolf KahnVictor Brauner (1903-1966): Centennial Celebration
– By Valery OisteanuMark Lombardi: Global Networks
– By John Hawke
ArtSeen
Beside The Rose: Selected Works by Jay DeFeo
– By Robert C. MorganLooking Both Ways
– By Nick StillmanJohn Currin
– By Stephanie BuhmannOffal, Salon des Refuses
– By James KalmTerry Winters
– By Michael BrennanE.V. Day
– By Megan HeuerMala Iqbal
– By Hrag VartanianDavid Opdyke
– By William PowhidaGuy Richards Smit
– By William PowhidaPatrick Martinez
– By William PowhidaDanny Goodwin
– By Benjamin La RoccoJoel Longenecker
– By Benjamin La RoccoManuel Pardo
– By Jill ConnerLois Orswell, David Smith and Friends
– By Katie StoneRudolf de Crignis
– By Joan WaltemathWim Wenders: Pictures From the Surface of the Earth
– By Stephanie Buhmann
Books
Bayard Rustin's Life in Struggle
– By Mridu ChandraKeeping Verse Alive
– By Peter SpagnuoloGorky, Inside and Out
– By Deirdre SwordsWhen We Lived on Dreams
– By Jim LongOff The Shelves
– By Book StaffThe Rail Recommends...
– By Book StaffArnaldo Correa with Nicholas Shumaker
The Writer's Craft... of Making a Living
– By Madeleine Baran
Music
The Drum Is a Voice
– By David PleasantOur Favorite Holiday Records
– By music staff
Dance
Descent
– By Ellen PearlmanDe Keersmaeker's Dancing in the Rain
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
Where the Tony Meet the Phony The Hamptons Film Festival
– By Film StaffDreaming A Little Dream: One from the Heart and 21 Grams
– By Lisa RosmanFuse's Video Resurrection
– By Willa Paskin
Theater
Stories Within Stories: The Talking Band's The Parrot
– By Lizzie OleskerThe Sounds of Change: Tony Kushner's New Musical
– By Emily DeVotiDevouring the Scenery with Sheila Callaghan
– By Adam Szymkowicz
Fiction
excerpt: A Note from the Underground
– By Kevin BartelmeSwallow Myself
– By Gregory RossiBuried in Cups
– By Kurt Strahm
Poetry
Favorite Restaurant
– By Joelle HannStorm Harp
– By Peter Lamborn WilsonSea of Red Death and Poiesis of the Better Life
– By Tomás HarrisAnimals
– By Joelle Hann
LastWords
From the Files of Hal Sirowitz
– By Hal Sirowitz