July/August 2005
The “July/August 2005” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 6, 2005.
Editor’s Message
A Self-Evident Truth
– By Phong H. Bui
Local
Bruce Ratner Doesn’t Use Steroids, But His P.R. Machine Won’t Stop Pumping Up the Atlantic Yards Project
New Skool Slam
Project Street Beat
– By Eleanor J. BaderNigger
– By Alisa UmanskayaConey Island Beer Hustle
– By Matthew VazRebel Music
– By Nicoletta BumbacMadman or Reformer? Some Q's for CXB
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeSlammed
– By Tamara LeacockKeep Writing
– By Ujijji Davis
Express
The Afro–Culture Wars: The "New Black Man" Cultural Criticism as Pseudo–analysis, Pt. 2
– By Norman KelleyTalking about Class
– By Richard WellsThe Playboy Philosophy Turns 40
– By Carrie PitzuloReflections on the Nation
– By Gabriel ThompsonReport from Brazil: Dark Clouds Surround an Evangelical Movement on the Rise Across the Globe
– By Jared Goyette
Art
Mark di Suvero with John Yau
Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York
– By Daniel BairdLee Friedlander
– By Farrah KarapetianPlease Do Not Remove this Label
– By Nick Stillman
ArtSeen
Unraveling Cultural Globalization
– By Robert C. MorganAlways a Little Further
– By Thomas MicchelliBarry McGee
– By Megan HeuerAndrea Zittel
– By Katie StoneJack Goldstein Paintings: 1980–1985
– By Robert C. MorganGreater Brooklyn
– By Stephanie BuhmannWorks on Paper
– By James KalmJohn Beech
– By Stephanie BuhmannWall-to-Wall Drawings: Selections Summer 2005
– By Chris HowardArthur Simms
– By Roger KamholzRobert Berlind
– By Ben La RoccoJohn Jacobsmeyer
– By James KalmDana Frankfort
– By Shane McAdamsTakeshi Yamada
– By Allison DeversIdeal
– By Ben La Rocco
Books
Radial Asymmetries
– By David Levi Strauss and Robert KellyAlan Ziegler with Suzanne Dottino
Stanley Kunitz with Farnoosh Fathi
Biography: What Becomes A Legend Most?
– By Ellen PearlmanPoetry/Mixed Media: The Dead Spectator
– By Alex YoungFiction: An Audacious Talent
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Music
Serenade to Oblivion
– By José PaduaA Form for the Mess: The Avett Brothers' Live Volume 2
– By Dare Dukes"How Come You're Not on American Idol?"
– By Norman Kelley
Dance
Noémie Lafrance
– By Vanessa MankoIn The Cold Light Of Day
– By Philippa Kaye
Film
Talking About the Other America, Again
– By Gragory Zucker2046: Wong Kar–Wai’s Finest Moment
– By Douglas SingletonThe Relentless Sublimity of Bertolucci's Il Conformista
– By David N. MeyerDon't See It Now
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeChris Marker at the Museum of Modern Art
– By Robert A. Haller
Theater
Elana Greenfield
– By Jason GroteDepraved New World: Jollyship the Whizbang
– By Wendy WeismanLocal Stop:
Brooklyn in the Fringe
Fiction
Appetite
– By Jonathan BaumbachThe Lullabye Motel
– By Pat MacEnultyRoy and Belinda
– By Blake RadcliffeThree Stories
– By Thomas D'AdamoTwo Games
– By Rachel E. Greer
Poetry
The Impossible Sentence
– By Edwin TorresI Wanted to Compose a Canticle of Exaltation and Praise, Stupid University Job
– By Sharon MesmerBasement Office Moraine, Theater Moraine #2
– By Joanna Fuhrman