October 2009
The “October 2009” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 5, 2009.
Editor’s Message
A Time for "Real Results"
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
ME AND THE GULLS
– By Gary CansellA Brave "New" Coney Island?
– By Eleanor A. MillerA View from Ocean Parkway
– By Eleanor J. BaderArchives: The Complaint of New Amsterdam
Express
Like a Diamond in the Sky
– By Shazia OmarAn Ordinary Man and a Nobody
– By Rehan AnsariBerlin in Bed, or Three Cheers for Socialized Medicine
– By Emily DeVotiCapitalism and its Discontents: American Casino & Capitalism: A Love Story
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeMaking Labor Legal
– By Spencer WoodmanThe Big Not-so Easy
– By Vincent RossmeierBurning Down the House
– By Kaitlin BellInside the Fed
– By Ian CrouchA Violent Ride
– By Christopher MichelWelcome to the Book Club
– By Sarah HromackArea Man Interviews Humor Writer
– By James ArnettThe Learning Table
– By Kaitlin BellIn the Mirror
– By Elizabeth Monaghan
ArtSeen
The 11th International Istanbul Biennial: What Keeps Mankind Alive?
– By Robert C. MorganJack Tworkov: Against Extremes: Five Decades of Painting
– By John YauJeni Spota: Fool's Small Victory
– By Terry R. MyersDavid Novros
– By John YauJack Whitten
– By Carrie MoyerHector Leonardi
– By Lyle RexerWe Don’t Need No Education...Well, Maybe a Little
– By Shane McAdamsLetter from BERLIN
– By David RhodesLetter from LONDON
– By Sherman SamThe Makers Market at The Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn
– By Cora FisherWilliam Blake's World: "A New Heaven Is Begun"
– By Thomas MicchelliBROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Aesthetic Cleansing
– By James KalmMaya Lin
– By Greg LindquistVasily Kandinsky
– By Valery OisteanuZipora Fried: Trust me. Be careful.
– By Kara L. RooneyIcons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
– By Laura HuntMax Pitegoff and Travess Smalley: Abstract Abstract
– By Roger Van VoorheesJoanne Greenbaum: Hollywood Squares, Elliott Green: Personified Abstraction
– By Cassandra NeyeneschConrad Marca-Relli: The New York Years, 1945-1967
– By Craig OlsonAlex Katz: Drawings
– By Phong H. BuiIrving Sandler, "Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Reevaluation"
– By Jim Long
Books
JOAN SILBER with Gabriel Brownstein
MEGAN ABBOTT with Cullen Gallagher
NONFICTION: Americaner and Americaner
FICTION: Screamworthy
– By Michelle AuBuchonTIRELESS FLAMBOYANT SEQUENCE
– By Ben MirovNONFICTION: The Slimy Bottom
– By Jon CurleyTOKENS
– By Bruce Seymour, John Yau, Ray Abernathy, and Nicolle ElizabethRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightFICTION: It's a Miraquirk
– By Raina LipsitzNONFICTION: Super Mindfulness Man
– By Paul Charles GriffinNONFICTION: Where are the Wild Things?
– By Jim FeastNONFICTION: Prison Cages, Death Rows
– By Jon Curley
Music
SIMONE DINNERSTEIN with Alessandro Cassin
– By Alessandro CassinRABBIT REDUX: The Music of Sufjan Stevens for String Quartet
– By Daniel J. Kushner"I REFUSE TO LOSE!" Comrade Fatso and Chabvondoka's Poetic Revolution
– By Peter HolslinTHE NAKED HEROES with David Wilentz
OUTTAKES
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
IN-I: JULIETTE BINOCHE AND AKRAM KHAN SEPTEMBER 15-20 AT BAM
– By Michelle VellucciDANCENOW[NYC]: STILL PLAYFUL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
– By April GreenePRESS UP CLOSE
– By L.J. SunshineCROSS POLLINATION: DANCE AND THE GREEN MOVEMENT
– By Mary Love HodgesDUTCH IN THE DARK: ANOUK VAN DIJK'S SHOT AT THE NEW ISLAND FESTIVAL, SEPTEMBER 10-20
– By Dalia RatnikasSHE MUST BE DREAMING: REGINA NEJMAN'S SURREAL DELETE/HER SEPTEMBER 9-10 AT DIXON PLACE
– By David St.-Lascaux
Film
When He Moved, It Mattered: PATRICK SWAYZE
– By Sarahjane BlumAsking for It
– By Tessa DeCarloToo Much Moore
– By Malcolm WyerDVD Culture
– By David N. Meyer
Theater
The Provenance of Beauty: A TRAVELOGUE (OF A SOUTH BRONX TRAVELOGUE)
– By Jake HookerO Glorious Creature!: HEIDI SCHRECK
– By David Adjmi
Fiction
Mark the Sun
– By Joshua Cohenfrom FIREWORK
– By Eugene MartenThe Creepy Girl
– By Janet MitchellThe Crumbs
– By Mina Pam DickRERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
– By Jonathan BaumbachTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyShitty Mickey
– By John Reed and Michele WitchipooThe Unimpressive Story
– By Janet MitchellThe Praying Mantis Appraised
– By Gherasim LucaMy Name Escapes Me
– By Jessica RogersDinner and Opera (from Conversations over Stolen Food)
– By Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch
Poetry
ROBERT KELLY with John Yau, David Levi Strauss, and Phong Bui
what is determined disintegrates
– By Alli Warrenfrom the spiritual life of replicants
– By Murat Nemet-Nejat