September 2007
The “September 2007” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 4, 2007.
Editor’s Message
A Wide Stance
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Political Circus Dazzles Brooklyn
– By Marie CarterA Future on Two Wheels
– By Paula CrossfieldWedding Bell Blues
– By Eleanor J. BaderWhither Congestion Pricing?
– By Carolyn KonheimScenes From a Rent War
– By Nicholas JahrThe Case Of The Duffield Street Homes
– By Emma Rebhorn
Express
A Long Island Passage
– By Emily DeVotiA Man Leaves Home
– By Billy SothernLetter from Syria: Goodbye to Iraq...
– By Robert S. EshelmanPankaj Mishra with Hirsh Sawhney
Janna Levin with Sylvie Myerson
Docs In Sight
– By Williams Cole and Williams Cole
Art
Documenta On The Ropes
– By Kim LevinA Tribute to Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007)
Jack Whitten with Robert Storr
Jay Bernstein with Joan Waltemath
Macy's Jamaica (1947): An Unsung Modernist Masterwork In Queens by Joseph Masheck
– By Joseph MasheckRichard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
– By Anne ByrdShigeko Kubota with Phong Bui
TRACKS: Sultana’s Dream and the SAWCC
– By Maxwell HellerTHE SEVENTIES
– By Deborah KassTRACKS: Peter Young: An Unlikely Artist
– By Ben La RoccoXu Bing with Ellen Pearlman
ArtSeen
Analogous Logic
– By Shane McAdamsProjects 85: Dan Perjovschi WHAT HAPPENED TO US?
– By Valery OisteanuAlex Hay New Paintings
– By Roger WhiteAn Artist in Our Time
– By Robert C. MorganThe Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings
– By Thomas MicchelliBrooklyn Dispatches: Still Crazy: Unveiled Previews Unprecedented Collection at the Denver Art Museum
– By James KalmChristoph Buchel
Training Ground for Democracy– By Thomas MicchelliColectivo Chocolatera
– By Warren FryRichard Pousette-Dart
– By Craig OlsonEdwin Dickinson in Provincetown, 1912 – 1937
– By John YauEdwin Dickinson: A Collector's Notes
– By Michael RubensteinNeo Rauch Para
– By John YauLori Der Hagopian Strange Bird Productions
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleGego, Between Transparency and the Invisible
– By Kimberly LammErnst Ludwig Kirchner
– By Hrag Vartanian
Books
Fiction: The Lone Ranger and Don Quixote Joust
– By Ben GoreRudolph Delson with Yael Korman
Fiction: Angels Among Us
– By Carol WierzbickiPoetry: Labyrinthine Fuges
– By Christopher Leland WinksNonfiction: Play On
– By Sarah ToddFiction: The Bleak Life
– By Lynn CrawfordFiction: My Name is Lily
– By Lisa KunikFiction: Rain & Revolution
– By Primwatee GrooverPoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
Dimensions in Music
– By Alan LockwoodDr. Homme's Laboratory
– By Todd SimmonsWhat is Avant-Pop?
– By Paul GrimstadCulture Matters
– By Richard KostelanetzBecause I Said So
– By Grant Moser
Dance
A Fall Dance Preview
– By Carley PeteschDANCE DANCE REVOLUTION!
– By Sophia Al-Marri
Film
Becoming Women
– By Sarahjane BlumFilm Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 4
– By Cullen GallagherJohnnie To In Charge
– By David WilentzThe New Talkies: Generation D. I. Y.
– By Mark AschRoman-Porno to Desu Noto - The Odyssey of Shusuke Kaneko
– By David WilentzAn Imperfect Cinema
– By Sarah KesslerLes Enfants Terribles (1950)
– By Jesi KhadiviThank God I'm an atheist. Two Films by Luis Bunuel.
– By Jed Lipinski
Theater
Cum On Feel The Noize
– By Barton BishopDown Under Over Here
– By Courtney BaronLesbian Pulp Fiction: The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
– By Kia CorthronExcerpt from The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
– By Kate M. Ryan and Linda S. Chapman
Fiction
Calendar of Regrets (an excerpt)
– By Lance Olsenoverly Dramatic portrait of a walk
– By Jillian Elisabetta CiacciaThe Moment
– By Sabrina SeeligAffair
– By Sabrina SeeligThe Time of the Darkest Color
– By Sabrina SeeligThe Accidental Oracle
– By Kurt Strahm
Poetry
Sleepy Little Essay on Good and Evil
– By Ann LauterbachThree Poems by Elizabeth Robinson
– By Elizabeth Robinson
LastWords
Turn That Frown Upside Down
– By Sabine Heinlein