September 2005
The “September 2005” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 1, 2005.
Local
Campaign 2005: Parole Call
– By Marjory GarrisonWhat's for Dinner
– By Marjory GarrisonBruce Ratner: Powerman, the Eroica, and Atlantic Yards
Express
Hearts and Minds of Darkness: Garrett Scott In Conversation with Williams Cole
Letter From London
– By Megha BahreeMexico City Punk
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsSession PLAN B: the Scottish Model
– By Peter Lamborn WilsonYou May Never Have Heard of Leo Strauss, but His Ideas Are Dominating the World
– By Norman Kelley
Art
Al Held (1928-2005)
– By Chris Martin, Rackstraw Downes, William Conlon, and Judy PfaffAncestry & Innovation African American Art, From the American Folk Art Museum, Through September 4
– By Daniel BairdDisplaced Histories: The Art of Banks Violette
– By Katie Stone SonnenbornLetter from Bruce Conner
– By Bruce ConnerRailing Opinion: Dore Ashton and Carlos Brillembourg on Post 9/11
– By Dore Ashton and Carlos BrillembourgThe Art of Parrying: Wilfried Dickhoff in conversation with Joan Waltemath
Philip Pearlstein In Conversation with Phong Bui
ArtSeen
Andrew Demirjian
– By Hrag VartanianFresh Paint
– By Francis RavenHomomuseum: Heroes and Moments
– By Hrag VartanianKilling Me Softly
– By Stephanie BuhmannMaterial Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter
– By William CorbettAernaut Mik
– By Jason MurisonThe Sign of Paradise
– By Roger KamholzRemote Viewing
– By Stephen MaineLeslie Roberts
– By James KalmWar/Hell Master Prints by Otto Dix and Max Beckmann
– By Thomas MicchelliWe Could Have Invited Everyone
– By Francis Raven
Books
Julian Barnes with James McCloskey
Fiction : An Experiment in Pleasure
– By Robert Clark YoungMama Knew Best
– By Ashley WilliamsMixed Media: Utopian Schemes
– By Johanna DruckerWriting in the Dark: The Story of Irene Nemirovsky
– By Erin DurantFiction : Desperate Housewives, Japan-style
– By Corrie PikulPoetry : Our Poet of the Plains
– By Alexander NazaryanArt: Picturing the Un-picturesque
– By Robert Berlind
Music
Park Slope Cosmopolitan: Las Rubias del Norte play the music of South American cowboys and Cuban lounge-lizards
– By Robbie WhelanNotes on Quantum
– By Basil Kirchin“i want to see your face in the reflection of my bedroom stereo”
– By Grant Moser
Dance
Dancing on the Rail: Let the Festivals Begin
– By Vanessa MankoImpure Movement: Cunningham, O'Connor and the Task of Saying Something by MJ Thompson
Notes from the Fringe
– By Emily Larocque and Nicole Pope
Film
Isn’t There a Little Bit More to Life?
– By Gragory ZuckerWerner Herzog & the CMV
– By David N. MeyerRemembering Omer Kavur
– By Robert A. HallerPunk Rock Docs
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeThe Romance of Revolution
– By Nona Willis-AronowitzSAMURAI FLASHBACK
– By David Wilentz
Theater
Excerpt: Commedia del Smartass
– By Sonya SobieskiA Life in the Theater: Orson's Shadow
– By Emily DeVotiIn Dialogue: Stepping into Darkness with Will Eno
– By Jake HookerUp from Off-Off: Prelude '05 Redefining "Downtown" Theater
– By Brook Stowe
Poetry
I Do Not Tire Quickly
– By Katie DegenteshBush Poem, City Poem, Hospital Poem
– By Harvey ShapiroApe Ancestry, My Refinery
– By Jeremy Sigler