June 2006
The “June 2006” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 12, 2006.
Editor’s Message
The Man Who Would Save the Earth
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Ashes, Ashes
– By Sabine HeinleinSight Unseen
– By Meera SubramanianConey Island Revival
– By David VarnoThe Soul of a Streetscape
– By Allison Lirish DeanGovernment Charges Local Man As Eco-Terrorist
– By Eleanor J. BaderJust a Thesis Show
– By Yukari Rymar
Express
The Politics of Sampling: A Discussion with Hank Shocklee, DJ Spooky, et al.
Blair's House of Cards: Clare Short with Hirsh Sawhney
Flower, Song and Kitsch: A Story of How Immigration Rescues Irony
– By Antonio LópezInside Denmark
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsPostcards from Detroit
– By Cibele Vieira
Art
False Starts, Loose Ends
– By Leo SteinbergRichard Serra with Phong Bui
Railing Opinion: WHERE ARE WE GOING?
– By Fred Licht
ArtSeen
William Anastasi
– By William PowhidaGarry Neill Kennedy and Joanna Malinowska
– By Carrie MoyerThe Culture of Queer: A Tribute to J.B. Harter
– By Jill ConnerEnergy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964–1980
– By Carrie MoyerGeorge Condo
– By James KalmJudy Glantzman
– By Thomas MicchelliGlen Fogel
– By Shane McAdamsHans Bellmer
– By Stephanie BuhmannJay Milder
– By Robert C. MorganJon Elliott
– By Shane McAdamsJoseph Marioni
– By Michael BrennanMan’s Men: Portraits by Man Ray
– By Valery OisteanuMatt Mullican
– By Roger WhiteRegina Bogat and Fausto Sevila
– By James KalmReport from London
– By Sherman SamReport from Germany
– By Barbara WeidleSarah McEneaney
– By Jennifer RileyJames Castle and Walker Evans
– By Ben La RoccoTill Gerhard
– By David Marcus
Books
Leisure Scoop
– By Sabine HeinleinArt and the Power of Placement
– By Ben La RoccoHistory: Death Be Not Proud
– By Alexander NazaryanHistorical Fiction: Bridging the Dream
– By Corrie PikulThe First Hurt Lingers Long
– By Caroline SeklirNed Vizzini with David Varno
Page Burners: Guilt-Free Summer Beach Reads
– By Nona Willis-AronowitzStill Believe In The Rainbow
– By John Yau
Music
Until the Fat Lady Sings: Can Opera Survive the Twenty-First Century?
– By Linnea CovingtonBecause We Said So
– By Grant Moser and Scott DamellWhere’s Your Head At?
– By David MarcheseFluxBox: Exploding the Miniature
– By Bethany Ryker
Dance
The Age of AIDS: Neil Greenberg Looks Back
– By Catherine MasseyModern Dance’s Moderns
– By Susan Yung
Film
Rocky Goes To RISD
– By Tessa DeCarloADAMAGICA: Magic and Iconolatry in Film
– By Robert KellyDa Vinci, Sedaris, Middlesex, Deleuze
– By David N. MeyerDOCS IN SIGHT
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeThe Turntable Is The Cosmos: Asian Summer in New York
– By David Wilentz
Theater
Cut-Rate Catharsis: The Brick Theater $ells Out
– By Miriam Felton-DanskyStraight Outta The Sewers: Banana, Bag & Bodice's Jason Craig with Alec Duffy
Kate E. Ryan: Spectacle of the Unassuming
– By Rachel HoeffelLost Harbor of the Clowns: CircuSundays at Red Hook’s Waterfront Museum
– By Katya SchapiroJUNE ON TRACK
Fiction
Black Grapes
– By Barbara HenningExcerpt from Yann Andréa Steiner
– By Marguerite Duras Translated by Mark Polizzott
LastWords
Wordsworth’s Volcano
– By Andrew Farkas and Andrew Farkas
Poetry
Poetry, Ecology, and the Reappropriation of Lived Space
– By Laura ElrickThe Ballad of the Girly Man
– By Charles BernsteinFaith is a Marionette
– By Simona Schneider