September 2008
The “September 2008” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 12, 2008.
Editor’s Message
The People Have Spoken
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Bike Wracked
– By Karl GreenbergStop and Frisk
– By Audrea LimDown There: Trinidadian Mysticism in South Flatbush
– By Aaron Lake SmithEntrepreneurial Dreams in Brooklyn
– By Terésa SternA Tree Grows in Bed-Stuy--and Organic Stuff Too
– By Haley BellExploring Bennett College
– By Nadia Chaudhury
Express
Dispatches from Denver
– By David Levi StraussBeijing Games: More Than a Pretty Face
– By Nicole RobsonRising Above the Flood: Kimberly Roberts, Scott Roberts, and Carl Deal
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeDown and Out in Hollywood
– By Doug CordellIndia: A View from Below Aravind Adiga with Hirsh Sawhney
Not Available at Your Local Bookseller: Edgardo Vega Yunqué's Latest Novel
– By Alan LockwoodThe Mind of Torture
– By Rollo RomigJust a Spoonful of Chemicals...
– By Katie RolnickAgainst the Mush
– By Jessica Loudis
ArtSeen
Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International
– By Thomas MicchelliLetter From Venice Off-Season: Art between the Biennials
– By Robert C. MorganDalí: Painting and Film
– By Valery OisteanuKirchner and the Berlin Street
– By Stephanie BuhmannMichael Peters & Erik Carlson
– By Warren FryJess: Paintings and Paste-Ups
– By John YauChris Domenick and Anne Pearce: Drawbridge
– By Becky BrownJ.M.W. Turner
– By Ben La RoccoAntonio López García
– By John YauRailing Opinion: Mao Is Like So Over
– By Ellen PearlmanPainting: Now and Forever, Part II
– By Craig OlsonLetter From Quito: Reality Revealed-Contemporary Art in Ecuador
– By Josh MorgenthauOne Live Stitch
– By Erin LindholmIs Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations
– By Hrag VartanianThe Olaf Eliasson Phenomenon
– By Shane McAdamsBay Area Now 5
– By Tessa DeCarloJonathan Pylypchuk
– By Natalie HaddadAfter Nature
– By Emily WarnerJilaine Jones: Sculpture
– By Sharon L. ButlerHome Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since 1970
– By Ian VolnerLouise Bourgeois
– By Anne ByrdBrooklyn Dispatches: Virtually Overwhelmed
– By James KalmGhada Amer: Love Has No End
– By Kimberly LammGrandma
– By Cassandra NeyeneschLetter from London
– By Sherman SamUnpopular Culture
– By Sherman SamBourgeois Trilogy
– By Laura Hunt
Books
Adam Bellow with Finn Harvor
Portrait of the Dominican Nerd as an (Overweight) Young Man
– By Ben ReichmanDo Spring Showers Disclose Flowers?
– By Ted PeltonNONFICTION: Why Everyone Talks About Ulrike Meinhof
– By Johannah RodgersFICTION: The Storyteller
– By Anna WainwrightNONFICTION: Raising Poetry
– By Sharon MesmerNONFICTION: Armchair General
– By Matthew MercierPOETRY: Finding A Better Use
– By Jim FeastNONFICTION: A Pity Thing
– By Philip AnselmoPoetry Roundup
Prose Roundup
– By Erin Heath, Ben Mirov, Tatiaana Laine, Ken Murray, Gary Lain, Lara Tupper, Clinton Krute, and Zoe Slutzky
Music
Echoes of a Bygone 'Burg: TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and Gerard Smith with Theodore Hamm
The Deep Strangenesses of the Fiery Furnaces
– By Kurt GottschalkLightspeed Champion Between Conan O'Brien and the Sidewalk Café
– By Kate CraneA Bale with a View Johnny Flynn
– By Meghan RoeLiberating Sound Floating Points Plays ISSUE Project Room
– By Alan LockwoodOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyBrought to You by the Letter G
– By Grant MoserMiami's Godfather of Noise
– By Patrick GreeneFamoro Dioubate with Aaron Lake Smith
– By Aaron Lake Smith
Film
Shock Treatment and Awe: The Divided City of Lou Reed's Mind
– By Tim Bracy and Elizabeth NelsonI Get a Woody Just Thinking About It!
– By Makenna GoodmanThe Kindness of Strangers
– By Lu ChenWALL-E Is 2 EZ
– By Camila de OnisFilthy Lucre
– By Mary HanlonClasses tous risques (1960)
– By David N. MeyerHelp Me, Eros (Bang Bang Wo Ai Shen)
– By David N. MeyerThe Furies (1950)
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
As Few Words as Possible Sarah Cameron Sunde on Jon Fosse
– By Paul WillisThe Power of Political Theater
– By Tara BraccoHooch & Hatchetation Radiohole takes on the Nation
– By Alexis Clements
Fiction
Another Friend
– By Emmanuel BoveThe Mariner (A Static Drama in One Scene)
– By Fernando PessoaTragic Strip: Comic Con Diary
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Boxcar Jumper Cable
– By Jessica FioriniJoie de Vivre
– By Lisa JarnotFor the Nation
– By Lisa JarnotNun Reading Romance Novel
– By Lisa JarnotPoem to my enemies
– By Nada GordonVoice Dhoti: Gong (after Dana Ward)
– By Nada Gordon
LastWords
Ramadan Story
– By Owen Byron Roberts