July/August 2008
The “July/August 2008” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 16, 2008.
Editor’s Message
Men of La Mancha
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Almost Famous
– By Will BreddermanChasing New York City's Waterfalls
– By Nadia ChaudhuryGlee Club: How an elementary school choir found global fame.
– By Sophie GilbertConey Island History Project Preserves the Past for Future Generations
– By Eleanor J. BaderTaking Back the Streets
– By Aparna NarayananMcCarren Park Pool
– By Trish HarnetiauxTransgenders Push Past Pageantry, Into Advocacy
– By Caroline Jackson
Express
A Day at the Races
The Belmont– By Sam FerriWEB EXCLUSIVE: Why I am going to Iran
Why I Am Going To Iran
– By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru SekouBloomberg's Blockin' Out the Sun
– By Matthew VazInside the American Ruling Class: John Kirby And Libby Handros in conversation with Williams Cole
South America's China Syndrome
– By Nikolas KozloffThe Deal That Wasn't
– By Omair AhmadGonzo: The Life and Death of the Last American Patriot
Inside India
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderHope Amidst the Rubble
– By Abby MarguliesThe Right to a Fair Trial
– By James Arnett2009 is Not the End
– By Vincent RossmeierArt and Lies
– By Karen Shimizu
ArtSeen
Meeting Imi and Blinky at Dia: Beacon
– By Sharon L. ButlerCharles Juhasz-Alvarado Complicated Stories
– By Cora FisherDumitru Gorzo In the Corner of My Eye
– By Valery OisteanuAsplundher Syndicate A Nelson Loses Three Heads... Apparently
– By Warren FryErica Svec Same Enemy Rainbow
– By Craig OlsonFrida Kahlo
– By Tessa DeCarloSigur Rós
– By Jed LipinskiThe Breakaway Republic of Bushwick
– By Hrag VartanianFrancisco de Goya y Lucientes The Disasters of War
– By Thomas MicchelliPhilip Guston Works on Paper
– By John YauAbsence and the Continuum of Nature
– By Robert C. MorganBrooklyn Dispatches: Cool Island and Garden of Chill
– By James KalmMark Fox Paper Bulls
– By Lynn CrawfordDarina Karpov Infinitely Small Disasters
– By Shane McAdamsTRACKS: More Than a Pretty View
– By James Trimarco
Books
Photography: A World to Warhol
– By Ellen PearlmanPoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightPoetry: Rounding Out the Edges
– By Jim FeastPoetry: Before- And After-Image
– By Ben TrippFiction: Illness as Metallurgy
– By Joseph SalvatoreFiction: Two Halves of a Whole
– By Hana MaliaFiction: Who, You?
– By Jessica StultsNonfiction: Legends from the Levant
– By Mia EatonNonfiction: Beauty, Old Faithful
– By Marcela SilvaNonfiction: The Cold Hard Facts of Home
– By Meghan RoeNonfiction: How a Stroke Became Genius
– By Robert BlaisdellProse Roundup
– By Ben Mirov, Mayra David, Jackson Taylor, and Tatiaana Laine
Music
Middle-Aged Jesus: Lydia Lunch's Second Coming
– By Judy BermanFleet Foxes: Pastoral Melodies
– By Laura Flierl¡Divertido! Dan Zanes's ¡Nueva York! Brings a Guerilla Groove to Family Music
– By KK KozikIn with the Out Crowd
– By Peter HolslinCyrill Schläpfer with Bart Plantenga
Outtakes
– By Steve DalachinskyBaye Kouyaté
– By Aaron Lake Smith
Dance
Denby and Balanchine: A Dance Critic's Work
– By Margaret FuhrerPostcard from Montréal: Festival TransAmériques, May 22–June 5
It's What You Say and How You Say It
– By April Greene
Film
Languid Winds and Daring Kimonos
– By David WilentzTatsuya Nakadai Retrospective
– By David WilentzThe Wackness is Dopeness
– By Makenna GoodmanThe Ennobling Embittering Struggle
– By David N. Meyer(Native) American Neo-Realism
– By David N. MeyerSmother Love
– By Tessa DeCarloCyd Charisse: 1921-2008
– By Sarahjane BlumReal and Imagined Kurdistan
– By Camila de OnísSci-fi thriller? Slasher movie? Comedy? No, its M. Night Shyamalan's latest flop...
– By Mary HanlonHarmony Korine in Conversation with Amy Taubin
Theater
The Meltdown Should Be Televised
– By Justin BoydYou Will Remember What it Looks Like: Karinne Keithley
– By Amber ReedA Play at Poolside: Caridad Svich's 12 Ophelias
– By David G. SchultzCrease Patterns: Rajiv Joseph's Animals Out of Paper
– By Kristoffer DiazOn Innocence and Depravity
– By Jason Grote
Fiction
The Envy of Nations
– By Michael WashburnTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyFICT/IONS
– By Richard KostelanetzThe Anxiety of Influence
– By David Brody
Poetry
Historiography
– By Cassandra PantusoNary a Soul
– By Macgregor Card
LastWords
Bloomberg's Blockin' Out the Sun
– By Matthew Vaz