October 2007
The “October 2007” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 3, 2007.
Editor’s Message
Pride and the Yankees
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
For We Were Strangers in Egypt
– By Eleanor J. BaderNinja Playground
– By Ray HulingLessons In Life and English
– By Caitlin EschThe City From A Rowboat
– By Nadia ChaudhuryThe Community Thing
– By Emma RebhornInvasion of the Stroller-Fiends
– By Andrew Boyd
Express
Chaos is Good Business
– By Nicholas JahrPax Americana
– By Dore AshtonAdventures in Meteorology
– By Gavin BrowningDocs in Sight: Children of Corn, Aaron Woolf with Williams Cole
Docs in Sight: Jennifer Fox is Flying
– By Ellen PearlmanHello, Goodbye
– By Jason Wachtelhausen
ArtSeen
Jules de Balincourt Unknowing Man’s Nature
– By John YauJudy Rifka Nostos
– By Cassandra NeyeneschThe Art of the Burning Man
– By Valery OisteanuTake Me Back to Constantinople Land:
– By Robert C. MorganChuck Webster Devotional Pictures
– By Craig OlsonZhang Huan Altered States
– By Ellen PearlmanChris Marker Staring Back
– By Litia PertaIngrid Calame Constellations
– By John YauLaura Newman, Claire Seidl, Cordy Ryman Project Space: Judith Page
– By Stephanie BuhmannLarry Clark Los Angeles 2003-2006
– By Cassandra NeyeneschOlafur Eliasson Take Your Time
– By Tessa DeCarloAndrew Ohanesian and Tescia Seufferlein Blind Spot
– By Hrag VartanianMarcel Broodthaers Décor, A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleRobert Whitman Turning
– By Shane McAdamsLlyn Foulkes
– By Nora GriffinKohei Yoshiyuki
– By Jeremy SiglerTom Russotti Aesthletics: Straightjacket Softball
– By Warren FryBrooklyn Dispatches: Call it Merde (and They Will Eat It): Ruminations on Crap
– By James KalmLetter from LONDON
– By Sherman SamWords Fail Me
– By Lynn CrawfordSylvia Plimack Mangold
– By John YauMerce Cunningham Drawings and Videos
– By Claudia La RoccoGordon Moore
– By Ben La RoccoWillem de Kooning The Last Beginning
– By Ben La RoccoArtists Retreat
– By Sharon L. ButlerHysterical Blindness: Critical Mess and the Limits of Vision
– By Thomas MicchelliPurgatory Lost: MASS MoCA Trashes Democracy
– By Thomas MicchelliLetter from VENEZIA
– By Lucio PozziUp River: Points of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy
– By Anne Byrd
Books
Arthur Nersesian with Andrew S. Taylor
Non-Fiction: "Following the Iconic"
– By Ben TrippUgly Duckling Presse and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
– By Yael KormanFiction: Down-and-out Losers
– By Jim FeastNon-Fiction: A Kaleidoscopic Elegy to a Lost Colleague
– By Michele FilgateFiction: The One Who Got Away (With It)
– By Alexander ZaitchikFiction: Unhappy Families, Unhappy in Their Own Ways
– By Primwatee GrooverFiction: Love the Bomb
– By Anna WainwrightPoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
Green Mud
– By Laura FlierlImposing Thirds
– By Alan LockwoodGauging the Pitchfork Effect
– By Matthew OzgaMeasuring the Meaning
– By Paula CrossfieldGetting Down to Essentials
– By Katy Henriksen
Dance
Big Dance Theater's The Other Here
– By Corey Harrower
Film
Downer in the Valley
– By Tessa DeCarloCan't Lose What You Never Had
– By Jed LipinskiWhat Is It Good For?
– By Jed LipinskiDream So Real
– By David WilentzWhen Good Isn't Good Enough
– By Brother CleveVintage Van Sant
– By Sarah Kessler
Theater
Every Word Ever Written...and One
– By Justin BoydRape, Shame and Suicide
– By Roger BabbNo Matter Where You Go, There You Are
– By Joseph CermatoriTaylor Mac's The Young Ladies Of...
– By Nick ChaseThe New Garde
– By Alan Lockwood
Fiction
Autobiography of Richard Hell
– By Richard HellLost Paradise, an excerpt
– By Cees NooteboomSPRAWL, an excerpt
– By Danielle DuttonSweet Sixteen
– By Lewis WarshWoodchuck and Hank Williams Zombie
– By Ted Pelton
Poetry
The Brooklyn Song
– By Patricia Spears JonesEarly Language, Quite Simply
– By Jennifer Bartlett