February 2008
The “February 2008” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 6, 2008.
Editor’s Message
The Joy of Being Wrong
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
AWAAM Under Fire
– By Eleanor J. BaderABC No Rio
– By James TrimarcoCharles Barron: Elected Activist
– By Michael Charles RundleHistory's Storyteller
– By Conor FriedersdorfUrban Lines
– By Jane CoffeyAnd Nate Created A.D.A.M.
– By Emma RebhornIdiotard 2008
– By Michael Short
Express
The God of My Grandparents
– By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru SekouBorn in Africa
– By Nadia DavidsKing's Legacy
– By Theodore HammFrom Black Power to Barack Obama
– By Peniel E. JosephHow We Torture: Alex Gibney with Williams Cole
An Immature Anti-Fascist
– By Vincent RossmeierWEB EXCLUSIVE: Letter from New Orleans
– By Peter ZinnMemories of SDS
– By Nicholas JahrA Case for Eco-Optimism
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderKites: A Memoir
– By Jason WachtelhausenOrhan Pamuk with Carol Becker
ArtSeen
"I am not now nor have I ever been..."
– By Mira SchorMiami Beach: Swimming in Pigment
– By Sharon L. ButlerA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Assistant
– By Graham T. BeckMerlin James Paintings of Buildings
– By John YauAl Taylor Early Work
– By John YauThomas Ruff
– By John YauRobert Jack Before and Aftermath
– By Shane McAdamsIvin Ballen 50/50
– By Lynn CrawfordKazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/ SANAA
– By Benjamin FriedmanUnmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century Collage: The Unmonumental Picture
– By Thomas MicchelliAnselm Kiefer: Paintings and Sculpture
– By Thomas MicchelliBrooklyn Dispatches Authentic Beauty, or The Real Phony
– By James KalmKaty Grannan
– By Stephanie BuhmannKaty Grannan The Westerns
– By Tessa DeCarloHugh Walton *UCKED
– By Lauren RossJulian Schnabel Navigation Drawings
– By John YauBehind the Seen
– By Jillian SteinhauerAlberto Burri
– By Valery OisteanuExtending the Universe: Conceptual Art, Women, and the Structuralist Paradigm
– By Robert C. MorganFrankenstein (Mortal Toys): a miniature spectacle
– By Warren FryBarry Le Va Voltage
– By Ben La RoccoRichard Artschwager
– By John YauLove/War/Sex
– By Hrag VartanianRackstraw Downes
– By Greg LindquistA Tribute to Michael Goldberg (1924--2008)
– By Janet Coleman, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, and Lucio Pozzi
Books
Geoff Dyer with Jed Lipinski
Non-Fiction: You Are Neither Here Nor There
– By Jed LipinskiEve Packer with Carol Wierzbicki
Fiction: Oh The Stories They Could Write
– By David VarnoFiction: The Politics of the Afterlife
– By Alexander ZaitchikPoetry: The Office is a Cruel Muse
– By Jim FeastNonfiction: American Ear Drums
– By Meghan RoeFiction: Sex as Subversion
– By Rachel BalikPoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightProse Roundup
– By Dan Fall, Renée E. D'Aoust, Mia Eaton, and Matt Everett
Music
Cello Visions: New Work by Jean Jeanrenaud, Matt Haimovitz, and Wendy Sutter
– By Alan LockwoodHank Williams in a Minor Key
Brooklyn's Lucinda Black Bear Goes where the Grunions Run– By Dare DukesFirst Thought, Best Thought: Baby Dee Returns to Her Music
– By Katy HenriksenOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyBrought to You by the Letter G
– By Grant Moser
Dance
Act Now: A Variety Show Review
– By April GreeneVirginie Marchand's Telegram
– By Ben TrippNot The Same Solo, Adaptations of Deborah Hay's Solo News
– By Carley PeteschDavid Parsons Dance at the Joyce Theater
– By April Greene
Film
Not Much Middle Ground
– By David N. MeyerEbony and Ivory
– By Tessa DeCarloDawn of Japanese Animation
– By David WilentzClose Your Eyes and Think of England
– By Sarahjane BlumDepilatory as Metaphor
– By Sarah KesslerThis "Dream" is a Nightmare
– By Sophie GilbertJuno: A City in Alaska
– By John OurslerRadio On
– By Rudy WurlitzerEverybody Gets Screwed
– By Jesi KhadiviPainter at Work
– By Josh Morgenthau
Theater
Red Monkey in the Middle: Between Two Worlds with Catherine Filloux
Acts of Cruelty
– By Alan LockwoodCaridad Svich with Eliza Bent
DON'T F#@! WITH the stageFARM
– By Trish HarnetiauxExcerpt from "Killing the Boss"
– By Catherine Filloux
Fiction
Excerpts from "Autonauts of the Cosmoroute"
– By Julio Cortazár and Carol DunlopElk Sleeps With His Own Wife By Mistake
– By Ted PeltonThe Pain Machain
– By Yuriy TarnawskyExcerpts from "The Searchers"
– By Nicholas BredieA Surchild
– By Yuriy Tarnawsky
Poetry
Update 2003
– By Jonas MekasManatee/Humanity
– By Anne WaldmanNecropolis
– By Christopher Y. LewReturn
– By Christopher Y. LewWatermelons
– By Christopher Y. LewAfter A Self-Portrait by Francis Picabia
– By John YauPoetic Alliances
– By Maxwell Heller