November 2005
The “November 2005” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 1, 2005.
Editor’s Message
The $64,000,000 Pyramid
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
A Call for Narrative
What’s For Dinner
– By Marjory GarrisonUp with Downzoning:
– By Aaron BrashearBike Messengers: Beta Still Rules on the Street
– By David VarnoBloomberg Says His Prayers
– By Kate GreerKit Kaplan: Capturing Brooklyn on Film
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
Change-a-lujah!
– By Liza Featherstone and Doug HenwoodJOHN BERGER'S MOTORCYCLE
– By Andy MerrifieldHave the Democrats Become the Party of Al Franken?
– By Theodore HammThe Revolution of Exalted Embarrassment
– By Reverend BillyTriumph of the Dear Leader: A Journey Inside North Korea
– By J. Scott BurgesonThe Bear and the Mouse
– By Christopher KetchamExcerpt from For God and Country
– By James Yee and Aimee Molloy
ArtSeen
Brian Jungen
– By Stephanie BuhmannJoan Jonas
The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleEl Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files
El Museo del Barrio– By Chris HowardManufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
– By William PowhidaMarcia Hafif
– By John WalthemathChristopher Wilmarth
Sculpture and Drawings– By Ben La RoccoRoland Flexner
Nocturne– By Shane McAdamsAlex Katz
First Sight: Working Drawings from
1965–2002– By Thomas MicchelliGeoffrey Dorfman
Recent Work– By James KalmRick Briggs
Painter Man– By James KalmNicolas Carone
A Selection of Works on Paper– By Tomassio LonghiLordy Rodriquez
– By Katie Stone SonnenbornMicki Watanabe
Lost and Found in the Stacks– By Shane McAdamsShirley Jaffe
Tibor de Nagy– By Ben La RoccoJasper Johns
The Flag Drawings– By Jim LongBeyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon
– By Valery Oisteanu
Books
Richard Ford with James McCloskey
Mike Albo with Jen Zoble
Culture: Wild girls
– By Corrie PikulPoetry: Elegy for a Young Poet
– By Erin Durant
Music
Bill Fay: Bill Fay and Time of the Last Persecution (Eclectic Discs)
– By David ShirleyThe Fall: Fall Heads Roll
– By Donald BreckenridgeCharles Ives's Universe Symphony, Finally
– By Richard Kostelanetz
Dance
Dance and the Urban Experience
– By Emily LarocqueThe Latin Vibe Trying on salsa's swirling hips
– By Kathryn EnrightAnn Liv Young’s "Michael" Review
– By Krista Miranda
Film
P. Adams Sitney with Brian L. Frye
The Absolute Cool of Death and Horses
– By David WilentzCracking Movie Gromit!
– By Karl O'ToolePointless Pyrotechnics & Shomin Geki
– By David N. MeyerNature and Society
– By Williams Cole and Williams Cole
Fiction
Stories by Diane Williams
– By Diane Williams
Poetry
Night Thoughts
– By Robert KellyA person sits next to a fugue, To Light Out, Now Then
– By Karen WeiserUnbewusste Orte, Feuilles Tourbillonnantes
– By Vincent KatzThe Elect,
This Time Gone So Fine– By Elena Alexander
LastWords
The Apotheosis of the Smile
– By Peter Wortsman