October 2008
The “October 2008” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 10, 2008.
Editor’s Message
Man, What a Show!
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
The Re-enactment of Lygia Clark's Baba Antropofágica (Anthropophagic Droo)
– By Marie CarterOn Rooftops in a Dream: Local Filmmakers Navigate the Indie-Market
– By Jericho ParmsHarvest in Howard Beach
– By Anna NeermanChisholm Center Uses History to Inspire Activism
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Remains of Renwick Ruins
– By Nadia ChaudhuryBackyard Gardens in Stereo
– By Erik Rhey
Express
Man, What a Show!
– By Theodore HammMaking Our Votes Really Count
– By Nicholas JahrUp in Smoke
– By Paul MattickCampaign Dispatches: St. Paul and Beyond
– By David Levi StraussA Letter from Alf Landon
– By David Levi StraussCall Me Naive: A Love Letter
– By Alex Gallo-BrownA Life in Underground Letters
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeCrawling through the Wreckage
– By Vincent RossmeierA Blueprint, or a Green One?
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderThe Journalist as Private Eye
– By Katie RolnickSouls of Arab-American Folk
– By Jessica LoudisDiamonds in the Rough
– By James ArnettAndrzej Wajda: An Auteur from the East
– By Alan Lockwood
ArtSeen
Ron Amstutz: Right Roads & Wrong Ways
– By Jeremy SiglerProgress
– By Jen SchwartingMarc Van Cauwenbergh: Loose Formations
– By Stephanie BuhmannShow and Tell: Contemporary Practice in Artists' Books
– By Sharon L. ButlerSwoon: Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
– By Ellen PearlmanRaha Raissnia
– By Ben La RoccoPipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation
– By Cora FisherArthur Cohen
– By Robert C. MorganShit: a group exhibition
– By Thomas MicchelliMedium Cool: The Case for Serrano's Hot Shit
– By Robert C. MorganAlejandro Almanza Pereda THE FAN AND THE SHIT
– By Shane McAdamsCecelia Condit
– By Heidi HowardBaker Overstreet: Follies
– By Craig OlsonLeigh Ledare: You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air
– By Thomas MicchelliBrooklyn Dispatches: Performance Anxiety
– By James KalmArt and China's Revolution
– By Ellen PearlmanRobert Bordo: It's always raining
– By Cassandra NeyeneschEntre Chien et Loup
– By Nora GriffinCharles Seliger: Ways of Nature
– By John YauJohn Ashbery: Collages: They Knew What They Wanted
– By John YauJohn Ashbery: Collages: They Knew What They Wanted
– By Claudia La RoccoLetter from London
– By Sherman SamAndrew Bick and Charlotte Beaudry
– By Sherman Sam
Books
FICTION: Enlightened Partisans
– By Jim FeastFICTION: Opiates and Omnivores
– By Brandon ProiaMarie Ponsot with Sally Dawidoff and Jean Gallagher
– By Sally Dawidoff and Jean GallagherFICTION: Three Chords and the Truth
– By Joseph SalvatoreFICTION: When You Can't Cut Fog
– By Douglas MesserliANTHOLOGY: The Task of the Translator-Poet
– By Ben MirovANTHOLOGY: Tongue Out of Cheek
– By Sam DouglasFICTION: Oh What a Paradise It Seems
– By Zoe SlutzkyFICTION: Better Off Without a Wife
– By David VarnoProse Roundup
– By Erin Heath, Ben Mirov, Tatiaana Laine, and Primwatee GrooverPoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Tim W. Brown
Music
Todd P.: A Show for All Ages
– By Megan MartinPhil Elverum with Aaron Lake Smith
Dimensions in Music: A Field Guide to the Mambo World
– By Alan LockwoodThe Next Cut Is The Deepest
– By Paula CrossfieldDrive-By Yodel
– By Bart PlantengaHawnay Troof: Toast to Us
– By Peter HolslinGibbons: The One-Hit Jabberwockies of the Rainforest
– By Wilfried Hou Je Bek
Dance
Jérôme Bel's New Lecture: A Review
– By Carley Petesch
Film
Sir David and Mrs. Brown
– By Lu ChenBresson on the Bayou
– By David N. MeyerNew Social Mov(i)ements
– By Sarahjane BlumIn the Bubble
– By Tessa DeCarloMourning For a Better Story
– By Camila de OnísLadies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1981)
– By Mary Hanlon
Theater
Getting Blasted: Sarah Benson with Caridad Svich
P#7: CRAWL, FADE TO WHITE
– By Gary WinterExtraordinary Jokes with Savianna Stanescu
– By Matthew Paul OlmosFour-Play: WaxFactory's blind.ness at PS122
– By John Beer
Fiction
Four Excerpts from an Unpublished Novella
– By David OhleSubstance Abuse
– By Harold JaffeAn Excerpt from John Reed's New Book: All the World's a Grave
– By John ReedThe Fox
– By Daniels ParselitiTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
The New Boys
– By Mei-mei BerssenbruggeThe Elected
– By Donna BrookPoetry
– By Simon Pettet
LastWords
David Wallace
– By Martin Riker