November 2006
The “November 2006” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 2, 2006.
Editor’s Message
Fun While it Lasted...
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Immigration Hysteria Hits Gotham
– By Gabriel ThompsonSweat Equity Pays Off
– By Paula CrossfieldNYC's Big ReStore
– By Shelley PasnikThe Chronicles of a Lost New York
– By Jen ItzensonArt for Life: Starts Off with a Rush in Brooklyn
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
Picasso as Anti-Fascist
– By Dore AshtonMiddle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo
Iraq in Fragments: James Longley with Williams Cole
Woodward at War
– By Nicholas JahrFrom Mexico City to Brooklyn: Carmen Boullosa
– By Alina ReyesRemembering Brad Will
– By Kate CraneExcerpt from The Uncomfortable Dead
– By Subcomandante Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo IIMemories of Sontag: From an Ex-Pat's Diary
– By Harriet Sohmers Zwerling
ArtSeen
The Filipino Roots of Minimalism
– By Jim LongLouise Bourgeois
– By Stephanie BuhmannRaoul De Keyser
– By Shane McAdamsCharles Garabedian
– By Thomas MicchelliEva Zeisel at 100: A Lifetime of Masterwork in Design
– By Valery OisteanuElizabeth Murray
– By Tomassio LonghiPicasso and American Art
– By Ben La RoccoDennis Oppenheim
– By Chris HowardSam Easterson
– By Lynn LoveJoseph Kosuth
– By Matthew L. McAlpinJoseph Kosuth – a labyrinth into which I can venture
– By Joan WaltemathReport from London
– By Sherman SamSean Scully
– By Craig OlsonJessica Stockholder
– By Stephanie BuhmannBrice Marden
– By Ben La RoccoAlfred Jensen
– By Ben La RoccoJohn Baldessari
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleGustav Klimt: Five Paintings from the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer
– By Hrag VartanianStanley Whitney
– By John YauMary Temple
– By Shane McAdamsGeorge Schneeman
– By Eric Holzman
Books
POETRY: For the Fat of Mind
– By Carol WierzbickiFICTION: This Book
– By Sabrina SeeligThe New Psychedelia
– By Ellen PearlmanCULTURE: Big girls on campus
– By Erica WetterTypecasting: A History of Stereotype
– By Maxwell HellerPOETRY: Act and Aftermath
– By William CorbettFICTION: Inventing personal history
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Music
A Perpetual Geyser of Pus
– By Justin TaylorJames Angell: The Making of The Pandemic Symphony
– By Todd SimmonsOuternational: Rockin' in the Unfree World
– By Matthew OzgaDimensions in Music: Soft Power: Jazz Meets the Subcontinent
– By Alan LockwoodMoving Waves: Listening to Tony Conrad’s Early Minimalism
– By Drew GardnerGayle Force
– By Carol Wierzbicki
Dance
Wrestling Dostoyevsky: Betontac
– By Mathew SandovalJeremy Nelson's Accent Elimination and Mean Piece (premiere) at Dance Theater Workshop
– By Krista MirandaRags and Riches: Caitlin Cook at the Kitchen
– By Claudia La RoccoThe Particulars of Being Human: A review of MOB Production's Mammal at Dance New Amsterdam
– By April Biggs
Film
The Brutal Futurism of Godard's Past
– By David N. MeyerA Royal Pain
– By Tessa DeCarloOld Fashioned Gore and Familiar Tropes: The 2006 NYC Horror Film Festival
– By David WilentzDOCS IN SIGHT
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeKAWAII Unchained: Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
– By David WilentzDVD Culture
– By Matt PetersonJIGOKU (Criterion Collection)
– By David Wilentz
Theater
Brendan Connelly Clicks and Pops, Brendan Connelly with George Hunka
The Dramatist and The Designer
– By George HunkaBetween the Lines: Light, Music, Theatre, Spirit
– By Lucas Benjaminh KrechThe Imperceptible Mutabilities of Susan-Lori Parks in 365 Plays And As Many Days Across The Whole Kingdom
– By Barbara Cassidy and Suzan-Lori ParksThe Five Sams Emerge from Samantha: Wicked Alchemy
– By Sheila Callaghan
Fiction
Lydie Salvayre with Yann Nicol, translated by Mireille Vignol
– By Yann Nicol and Lydie SalvayreWar Hammer
– By Susan Daitch
Poetry
The Transcendent Brow, Another Quiet Emergency
– By Corrine FitzpatrickA Thing Defined
– By Craig Morgan TeicherAfter Richard Pryor
– By Roberto Tejada
LastWords
Staying Power
– By Lynn Crawford