November 2008
The “November 2008” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 10, 2008.
Editor’s Message
One Giant Step Forward...
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Williamsburg Writer Opens Dialogue on Tough Issues
– By Eleanor J. BaderA Tale of Two Fort Greenes
– By Terésa SternRepresenting Central Brooklyn: Mark Winston Griffith with Nicholas Jahr
The Mysterious Life and Death of Queenie the Bull
– By Matt Schwarzfeld
Express
The Mea Culpa of Gentrification: Danny Hoch with Williams Cole
Risky Business
– By Paul MattickSome Keys to Obama's Success
– By Theodore HammLearning from the "Malaise": a speech by President Jimmy Carter
– By Jimmy CarterExcerpt from Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
– By Amara LakhousAndrzej Wajda: Poland and the Screens of History
– By Alan LockwoodArt You Can Believe In
– By Eric TriantafillouGames Without Frontiers
– By Gabriel ThompsonAmerica's Downfall: Ron Suskind and the Years After Sept. 11
– By Justin JouvenalStart 'Em Young
– By Abigail KramerDark Youth
– By Nicole RobsonInterview with Sean Wilsey
– By Jed LipinskiThe Mea Culpa of Gentrification: Danny Hoch with Williams Cole
New Image, New Reality
– By David Levi Strauss
ArtSeen
Stephen Antonakos: Here and Beyond
– By Phong H. BuiWhat More Can You Ask of Painting? Leon Golub Did It!
– By Jonathan SmitCora Cohen
– By Joan WaltemathHe Sen
– By Robert C. MorganSuitcase Paintings: Small Scale Abstract Expressionism
– By Emily WarnerGiorgio Morandi
– By Greg LindquistPedestrian
– By Hrag VartanianAbstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere
– By John YauRon Gorchov
– By Ben La RoccoCowboys without Cows Live Forever
– By Shane McAdamsThe Brainstormers
– By Warren FryWhitfield Lovell: Kith and Kin
– By Kimberly LammLee Ufan
– By Robert C. MorganMerrill Wagner
– By Ben La RoccoMartha Rosler Great Power
– By Josh MorgenthauRoy Ferdinand
– By Bill SasserIrving Norman
– By Valery OisteanuLetter From London
– By Sherman SamBrooklyn Dispatches: Resurrection of a Bad-Ass Girl, Part I
– By James KalmElectronic Media Performing Arts Center
– By Ellen PearlmanEyal Danieli in the mood for love
– By Thomas MicchelliSustaining Institutions
– By Alexis Clements
Books
Graphic Novel: The A. for Anybody
– By Tim DoodyGeography? It Doesn't Exist: Antonio Lobo Antunes with Alessandro Cassin
Poetry: A Guilty Conscience for her Time
– By Clinton KruteNon-Fiction: Better Me than Democracy
– By Dave MandlPoetry: Language and Love
– By Alexander NazaryanPoetry: Back on the Warhorse
– By Ben MirovNon-Fiction: Little Lies and Literati
– By Sierra Feldner-ShawNon-Fiction: Ted-time Letters
– By Jackson TaylorThe Regulation That Didn't Save Us: David Hajdu with Roland Kelts
Prose Roundup
– By Ben Mirov, Michele Filgate, Ben Mirov, Ralph Clare, and Clinton KrutePoetry Roundup
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
Thirty Days at the Stone: Highlights from a Month Curated by J. G. Thirlwell
– By Sergei TcherepninFolktronica, or What Good is a Label?
– By Katy HenriksenBeyond Comparison: Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts
– By Kate SilverKevin Barnes Settles Down--or Does He?
– By Kurt GottschalkRemain in Touch
– By Todd SimmonsOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Bill T. Jones' A Quarreling Pair at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
– By Beatrice BarbareschiTragicomic Throwdown: Dada von Bzdülöw's Factor T.
– By April GreeneLights up on the Audience
– By Simone Larson
Film
Omnibus 08: The 2008 New York Film Festival
– By David N. MeyerRUDY RAY MOORE: RAW, RUDE & UNREPENTANT: R.I.P.
– By Brother CleveCharm School? Hardly
– By Mary HanlonSome Wild Wedding
– By Camila de OnísA Paler Shade of Nixon
– By Melina Neet
Theater
Looking to the Neo-Future: (Not) Just Another Day Like Any Other
– By Sonya SobieskiWhat Wall Street Can Learn From Actors
– By Tara BraccoPoland in Perspective: A Festival of Plays in New York
– By Caridad Svich
Fiction
From Bunker Anatomy
– By ClaroTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyWoodchuck & Lemur
– By Ted PeltonSuper Fudge Chunk
– By Peter ConnersTrail
– By Jessica TreatFrom Under Every Spreading Tree
– By Carl PetersonFrom 02:51
– By Thomas D'AdamoTwo Stories
– By Larry Fondation
Poetry
Hommage a Ponge
– By Charles NorthBicycle Day
– By Mel NicholsBlaise Memories 1-4
– By Vincent Katz"People I wish I'd Known"
– By David Novros
LastWords
Dawn in New York
– By Richard Hell