April 2009
The “April 2009” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 6, 2009.
Editor’s Message
Fair is Foul
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Local Retailers Sing Recession Blues
– By Eleanor J. BaderNew Yorkers Blow the Whistle on Dirty Coal
– By Nicole GreenfieldI'll Take My Chances on the Nightshift
– By Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris SharmanA Filmmaker's Journey: Brooklyn's Lisa Russell
– By Cheree Franco
Express
What Is to Be Done?
– By Paul MattickThe Proof of the Honey
– By Salwa Al NeimiThe Perils of a Young Fixer in Afghanistan: Ian Olds in conversation with Williams Cole
Iraq: A Game of Craps
– By Michael BuschChildren of Genocide
– By Elizabeth MonaghanNotes from Rio
– By Theodore Hamm
Art
ALFREDO JAAR with Phong Bui, Dore Ashton, and David Levi Strauss
Matvey Levenstein with Phong Bui
Roberta Smith with Irving Sandler
Brooklyn Dispatches:Williamsburg, Ready for Your Close-Up? The Premier of Brooklyn DIY
– By James KalmLetter From LONDON
– By Sherman SamDetritus and Drawings: The Art of Dineo Seshee Bopape
– By Kathleen MassaraWhere's the Matter?: On the Sculpture of Kenneth Snelson
– By Robert C. MorganVirgil Grotfeldt, 1948-2009: A Tribute
– By Stephanie Buhmann
ArtSeen
Jim Lee: Paranoid
– By Craig OlsonPhilip-Lorca diCorcia: Thousand
– By Cora FisherAllison Katz: You Talk Greasily
– By David MarkusAmy Pleasant: Tight Shot
– By Shane McAdamsCorpus Extremus (Life +)
– By Emily WarnerRebecca Smith, Mildred Beltre, and Rana Khoury
– By Greg LindquistThe Mood Back Home
– By Sharon L. ButlerBurning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection
– By Kimberly LammXylor Jane: N.D.E.
– By John YauThomas Scheibitz: Missing link in Delphi
– By John YauLeon Kossoff: From the Early Years - 1957-1967
– By Thomas MicchelliEllen K. Levy
– By Ellen Pearlman1st Annual Hoo-Rah Marginal Arts Festival Parade
– By Warren FryCarolee Schneemann: Painting, What It Became
– By Valery OisteanuBruce High Quality Foundation: Empire
– By Maxwell Heller
Books
FICTION: What Do You Want and Why Do You Love Me?
– By Jim FeastFICTION: Hugs Last Too Long
– By Bruce SeymourPHOTOGRAPHY: Step Right Up
– By Brooke ChromanPOETRY: High Noon
– By Ben MirovFICTION: The New Global Novel of Disorientation
– By Anis ShivaniMEMOIR: A Bomb in One Hand, Shelter in the Other
– By David VarnoRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightTOKENS
– By Dan Fall, Paul Charles Griffin, Rami Shamir, and Paul Devlin
Music
Remember Yourself?
– By B-SquadA Mash Note Written in a Foreign Language
– By Alex LittlefieldRemembering Early American Electronic Music
– By Richard KostelanetzSounds in the Dark: Two New Late-Night Talk Shows Embody Old-Time Radio in the Digital Age
– By Jed LipinskiThe Thrill of Confinement: Bonnie "Prince" Billy
– By Katy HenriksenDon't Shoot the Player Piano: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Taps into Unplayed Musical Realms
– By Alan LockwoodA Good Bad Trip: Meshuggah, Cynic, and the Faceless at the Fillmore
– By Joseph SchaferTelepathe's Plea for You to "Dance, Mother"
– By Paula Crossfield
Dance
Give Me Gaga
– By Dalia RatnikasLimbo En Route to the Afterlife
– By Hillary BrenhouseWest Side Story Revival Hits Broadway
– By Emily MacelDone Into Pictures: A New Graphic Biography Celebrates Isadora Duncan's Feminism
– By Mary Love HodgesChoir Praxis: On Daria Fain's and Robert Kocik's Phoneme Choir Movement Research Festival, Judson Memorial Church, May 4, 2009
– By Thom DonovanThink Punk, Think Again: Karole Armitage Celebrates 30 Years in New York
– By April GreeneIn Search of Duende in New York
– By Mary StaubDeborah Slater and LAVA Offer Different Visions of Inspiration and Realization
– By Mary Love Hodges
Film
When You Lose All Hope, You Live For The Present
– By David N. MeyerWhat Passes for Booklearning
– By Sarahjane BlumWhen the Outside World Crashes Within
– By Lu ChenThe Chelsea Hotel on Film
– By Mary HanlonShinjuku Ectsasy: Independent Films From The Art Theatre Guild Of Japan
– By Ethan SpiglandPolis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
– By Elyssa East
Theater
The Voyage In
– By Sonya SobieskiWelcome to Lona's World
– By Michael SoussanMark Armstrong on Directing, Producing & Love with Trista Baldwin
The Perfect Mix: Assembling Angela's Mixtape: Playwright Eisa Davis with Tommy Smith
– By Tommy Smith
Fiction
The Good Citizen
– By Jolie GorchovPenis Learns How To Sing
– By Ted PeltonThe Childhood of Despair
– By Evan HarrisReruns Rezoomed: a Serial Novel
– By Jonathan BaumbachTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Simon Pettet
– By Roger Van Voorhees
LastWords
A Monster, a Genius, or Both
– By Lester Pimentel