Dec/Jan 2008–09
The “Dec/Jan 2008–09” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 12, 2008.
Editor’s Message
The Brooklyn Rail's Person of the Year 2008
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
French Street Artist Dreams of New Starts in Brooklyn
– By Alexis BuissonWillamsburg's Poet Laureate: Yom Tov Ehrlich
– By Michael CasperA FIERCE Fight in the West Village
– By Lucas MannY-Act: Mexican-American Students Fight for Educational Equity
– By Eleanor J. BaderThe Underground Economy
Express
What Kind of New Deal?
– By Richard WellsDan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlem Jive (1944)
– By Theodore HammWhen You Are Locked in the Trunk of a '69 Bonneville
– By Emily DeVotiStill Doing It: Coming to a Sex Shop Near You
– By Michelle MemranFrom Laos to Brooklyn: Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath in conversation with Williams Cole
Poland Here, and Poland Now
– By Alan LockwoodAndrzej Wajda: Poland and the Screens of History
– By Alan LockwoodRestoring the Republic, Bacevich's The Limits of Power
– By Becky OhlsenDershowitz at War: The Case Against Israel's Enemies
– By Abby MarguliesSuperman from the South, Rodriguez's Che: A Graphic Biography
– By Nisa QaziOnly the Beginning, Filkin's The Forever War
– By Lester PimentelMemories of Great Books, Beam's A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
– By Ian CrouchA Forgotten Man of the Resistence, Paulhan's On Poetry and Politics
– By Jessica LoudisFair Play: Lilly Ledbetter's Story and Workplace Discrimination
– By Alexis Clements
ArtSeen
Katia Santibañez New Work
– By Phong H. BuiAd Reinhardt's Emblematic Drawings In Their Moment
– By Joseph MasheckJohn Altoon: Paintings and Works on Paper 1963-1968
– By Craig OlsonJosephine Halvorson
– By Litia PertaTibor Freund: Motion in Paintings
– By Craig OlsonNeo-Maternalism: Contemporary Artists' Approach to Motherhood
– By Sharon L. ButlerAli Banisadr
– By Greg LindquistLive Forever: Elizabeth Peyton
– By Jeremy SiglerNasreen Mohamedi: The grid, unplugged
– By John YauMary Heilmann: To Be Someone
– By Anne ByrdWho's in Charge?
– By Tessa DeCarloRonald Bladen: Sculpture of the 1960s and 70s
– By Ben La RoccoChuck Webster
– By Shane McAdamsBettina Sellmann: Taina . cosmogony . make your own paper dragon
– By Cassandra NeyeneschJoan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937
– By Valery OisteanuLetter From London
– By Sherman SamMichelangelo, the Man and the Myth
– By Brandt JunceauJosé Parlá: Layered Days
– By Joan WaltemathZhang Xiaogang
– By Robert C. MorganRudy Burckhardt: New York, N. Why? 1937–1940
– By Roger Van VoorheesLutz Bacher: ODO
– By Liz WingAlfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897 – 1909
– By Stephanie BuhmannCutting Realities: Gender Strategies in Art
– By Kimberly LammGeorge Tooker: A Retrospective
– By Maxwell HellerKazimira Rachfal: i'll go there, gladly
– By Laura HuntSa Suk-won
– By Robert C. MorganDivine Retribution
– By Thomas MicchelliDoes Invidiousness Go With The Territory?
– By Dore AshtonReply to Irving Sandler
– By Michael Corris
Books
Marc Estrin with Ben Mirov
FICTION: Nothing is Quite Forgotten Anywhere
– By Mac BarrettFICTION: Accidents Will Happen
– By Oisin CurranFICTION: The Art of Communication
– By Meghan RoeFICTION: On the Road Again?
– By Erin HeathProse Roundup
– By Jim Feast, Clinton Krute, and Kevin RiordanPoetry Roundup
– By David Varno, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, and Roger Van Voorhees
Music
The Biggest Weapon in Northern Uganda
– By Peter HolslinChad and Jeremy: State of the Reunion
– By Dann BakerPunk, with Occasional Glockenspiel
– By Matthew OzgaIs New York the New Second City?
– By Kurt GottschalkBrought to You by the Letter G
– By Grant MoserOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyJust a Singer in a Rock 'n' Roll Band: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology (Lost Highway)
– By Julie KocsisMass Destruction at the Met: Dr. Atomic at the Metropolitan Opera
– By Ellen Pearlman
Dance
Pina Bausch Returns to BAM with Bamboo Blues
– By Emily MacelChildhood Play as Wild as She Remembers
– By Beatrice BarbareschiGarth Fagan's Phone Tag, Thanks, and Things? No, Thanks.
– By Dalia RatnikasPuzzlingly True
– By Beatrice BarbareschiDance Films Association's 37th Annual Dance on Camera Festival
– By Mary Love HodgesEpistolary Therapy: Sixty
– By Simone LarsonOne Human Being at a Time: A Visit to Elizabeth Streb's S.L.A.M.
– By April Greene
Film
Stockholm Syndrome
– By Sarahjane BlumTanned, Rested, Tormented, and Repressed
– By Tessa DeCarloHypnotized in Global Scenarios
– By Lu ChenShine a Light
– By Mary HanlonIn Dire Straits
– By Camila de OnísApoorva Lakhia with David Wilentz
Melville, Assayas and a Box of Classics
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
Kane in Babel: notes
– By Elana GreenfieldA Planetoid of Self: Mac Wellman
– By Barbara CassidyRumble in Brooklyn: The Civilians' Brooklyn at Eye Level
– By Aurin SquireSibyl Kempson and the Secret Life of Potatoes
– By Amber ReedActing Strangely: A Light Lunch with My Brother
– By Jed Lipinski
Fiction
Danielle and the Dyer
– By Mark Du MezThe Only Mortal
– By Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
Poetry
from De la Bronx
– By Greg Fuchsfrom Clock, Deck, and Movement
– By Rodrigo Toscano
LastWords
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley