September 2004
The “September 2004” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 1, 2004.
Local
Mayor in the Middle?
– By Theodore HammA Home for Elephants?
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeA Mini-Guide to the RNC
– By Williams Cole, Williams Cole, and Heather RogersRepublicans: A Prose Poem
– By Eliot WeinbergerOne Immigrant's Journey: Chasing the Dream in NYC
– By Gabriel ThompsonIn re: Atlantic Yards
– By Velmanette Montgomery, Major Owens, and Letitia James
Express
Are Heterosexuals Worthy of Marriage?
– By Michael ParentiBeggars' Banquet
– By Paul MattickThe Strange Odyssey of Pierre Mac Orlan
– By Andy MerrifieldIsaiah Berlin and Meyer Schapiro: An Exchange
Art
Unbroken Kilometers
– By John HawkeLee Bontecou: A Retrospective
– By Daniel BairdRailing Opinion
– By Dore AshtonAna Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance
– By Megan HeuerA Tribute to Leon Golub (1922–2004)
– By Clayton Eshleman, Phong H. Bui, and David Levi StraussRackstraw Downes
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity
– By Roger WhiteGerman Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (1919–33)
– By Stephanie BuhmannKarel Funk
– By Nick StillmanSix From the Seventies: The Last Years of Modern Photography and Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978
– By Farrah KarapetianCounter Culture New Museum of Contemporary Art
– By Sonya ShrierDarren Bader Rivington Arms
– By Ben La RoccoYeardly Leonard Elizabeth Dee
– By Tomassio LonghiBush League Roebling Hall
– By Ben LaRoccoJoanna Pousette-Dart
– By Michael BrennanField: Science, Technology, and Nature Socrates Sculpture Park
– By Tom JohnsonMargrit Lewczuk All of Me Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia
– By James KalmDoDo Jin Ming
– By Jonas MekasSeeing Other People Marianne Boesky Gallery
– By William Powhida
Books
How the Other Half Lives
– By Mirium ParkerOn Michael Lally
– By Hirsh SawhneyBrian Kim Stefans with Mónica de la Torre
Matthew Sharpe with Erinne Dobson
Off the Shelves
– By Book Staff
Music
The Thing Itself: The Gram Parsons Project
– By David N. MeyerThe Rebirth of DJ Spooky
– By Ellen PearlmanLet the Wave Wash You Over
– By Grant Moser
Dance
The Art of Pure Movement
– By Rebecca StennDancing on the Rail
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn!
– By David N. MeyerTelling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker
– By Gragory ZuckerDocs in Sight
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeTwo Memories of Alexander-Sasha Hammid
– By Jonas MekasNotes from the Fun Factory
– By Doug Cordell
Theater
RNC: Fight or Flight?
– By Brook StoweSiting NYC:
Six Nights in September– By Jason GroteQuincy Long's People Be Heard
– By Justin BoydDiane Torr with Sonya Sobieski
Real People in Crisis Bushwick's Youth Theater Struggles to Survive
– By Douglas SingletonA Williamsburg Neverland: Straight on 'Til Morning
– By Emily DeVoti
Fiction
Deadline
– By Jonathan Baumbachexcerpt: Dahlia's Iris--Secret Autobiography and Fiction
– By Leslie Scalapinoexcerpt: Thumbs Up
– By Peter SpielbergA Visit
– By Jessica TreatUntitled
– By R.M. Berry
Poetry
Epistle to Ignatz
– By Monica YounIgnatz Incarcerated
– By Monica YounAfterwards Ignatz
– By Monica Younfrom Imaginary Journals
– By Dan Machlin