March 2008
The “March 2008” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 7, 2008.
Editor’s Message
The End of City Politics?
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
The Last Days of Brooklyn
– By Samantha BerkleyMiddle School Initiative Challenges Education as Usual
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Easter Maybe Crowd
– By Rev. Dr. Donna SchaperBlessed And Holy Confusion
– By Nathan Schneider1000 Manhattan Avenue
– By Sabine Heinlein
Express
Subprime Crimes From Wall Street to Brooklyn and Beyond
– By Nicholas JahrThe Slave Auctions and the End of the Kung-Fu Judge
– By Christopher KetchamDeKalb Makes the News
– By Lydia StrykCampaign Notebook
– By Theodore HammWar Made Easy Deferring to Media Criticism
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeInternet Conspirancy Films and the Spirit of the Times
– By Owen RobertsListening to History, Ned Sublette's New Orleans
– By Alan LockwoodA Blueprint for Democratic Revivalism
– By Vincent RossmeierInside the GOP Playbook
– By James ArnettExposing the Slums
– By Gavin BrowningStan Brakhage with Pip Chodorov
ArtSeen
Tracking Loren MacIver
– By Sharon L. ButlerHoward Smith Stroke and Structure
– By Joan WaltemathKlara Liden Elda för kråkorna
– By Becky BrownJohn Zinsser Recent Work
– By Stephanie BuhmannEnriqué Chagoya Borderlandia
– By Tessa DeCarloThoth Herma: The Life and Land of Nular-In
– By Warren FryDo-Ho Suh Reflection
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James KalmAgnes Martin
– By Ben La RoccoFrancis Alÿs Fabiola
– By David MarkusSterling Ruby Chron
– By Shane McAdamsMonumental Squalor
– By Thomas MicchelliWACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
– By Thomas MicchelliDavid Geiser
– By Robert C. MorganThe Destiny of Larry Poons: Larry Poons Paintings 1971 - 1980
– By Robert C. MorganClose Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers
– By Valery OisteanuFreeze Frame
– By Craig OlsonAgnes Martin's Homework
– By Jeremy SiglerAnika Wilson A Question of Beauty
– By Jillian SteinhauerBill Jensen Notes from the Loggia
– By John YauHarriet Korman Recent Paintings and Drawings
– By John YauRodrigo Moynihan
– By John YauThomas Nozkowski Paintings
– By John YauWeb exclusive - Martin Wilner
– By Josh Morgenthau
Books
Graphic Novel: Hipster in a Hail of Bullets
– By Aaron LeichterFiction: Reason to Prepare
– By Eryn LoebNonfiction: I Am Not My Mother
– By Rachel BalikFiction: Spray-Painted Mysteries
– By Becky FerreiraFiction: Dangerous, Lyrical Journeys
– By April Yvonne GarrettNonfiction: Top Secret Insignia, Its Place in a Book
– By Erin HeathPoetry: A Life Sentence
– By Ben TrippPoetry: Peculiar Antennae
– By David VarnoPoetry Roundup March 08
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightProse Roundup March 2008
– By Brooklyn Rail Staff
Music
Total Theater of Harry Partch: Thoughts after a Revival of Delusion of the Fury
– By Sergei TcherepninBass Rules: Israel "Cachao" Lopez and Andy Gonzalez: From Mambo to Salsa: Part Seven
– By Alan LockwoodAzúcar! Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz at the New World Theater
– By Ellen PearlmanWith New York at Her Feet: Bettye LaVette in the Allen Room, Lincoln Center
– By Sharon MesmerOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyGive the Guitarist Some
– By Todd Simmons
Dance
The Lady and the Light: Chunky Move's Glow at the Kitchen
– By April GreeneDance States of a Theatrical Mind: Diana Szeinblum's Alaska
– By Ryan TracyWho Plays? Pedestrian Movement, Neumann Style
– By M.J. Thompson
Film
Gauze, Manga and Delinquency, Tadanobu Asano with David Wilentz
Your Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
– By Sophie GilbertSheep Head Noir From The Frozen North
– By David N. MeyerYakuza Films at the Asia Society
– By David WilentzParables of Impossibility
– By Lu ChenPayday
– By Brother CleveMoolaadé
– By Makenna Goodman
Theater
Hello Failure, Kristen Kosmas with Heidi Schreck
Room for Cream? Always
– By Trish HarnetiauxImages of Emotion
– By John BeerThe Evolution of a Theater Company
– By Alexis ClementsChanneling Inge: Marcia Cebulska, Catherine Filloux, Caridad Svich, Lydia Stryk and Alice Tuan with Adam Kraar
WEB EXCLUSIVE: From Outrage to Stage: George Packer's Betrayed
– By Justin Boyd
Fiction
From Correction of Drift, a novel in stories
– By Pamela RyderDear Hunting
– By Barbara HenningThe Western Cannon
– By Andrew Farkas and Andrew FarkasExcerpts from "Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife"
– By William H. Gass
Poetry
Typical Umbrella Fiasco
– By Miles ChampionCaption
– By Linh DinhHow to Foster
– By Linh DinhNot Quite Symmetry
– By Linh DinhBig Box
– By Ange MlinkoCuckoo Nun
– By Ange Mlinkoaura
– By Arlo Quint