November 2010
The “November 2010” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 5, 2010.
Editor’s Message
Twain and Trane
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
The G Train: Bound For Glory?
– By E. Tammy KimA Two-Borough Taco Tour
– By Dave KimBrooklyn by the Numbers
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
Hyderabad Calling
– By Christian Parenti, with photos by Jessica DimmockFORECLOSURES: A Legal Racket
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsWAITING FOR "SUPERMAN"
– By Brian EdgarTwain and Trane
– By Theodore HammIs Publishing Doomed? JOHN B. THOMPSON with Williams Cole
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeThe Last Real Populist
– By Robert HammMoulitsas vs. The Fundamentalists
– By Michael TerryHyde's Gravity
– By Christopher MichelA Family Affair
– By Lester PimentelAll Ears
– By Allen WilcoxSTEWARD'S NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
– By David Rosen and David Rosen
ArtSeen
MATTHEW BARNEY's Heart of Darkness
– By Vince CarducciRaphael Rubinstein on Art's Past and the Future of Publishing
– By Patricia MilderRENÉ DANIËLS: Painting on Unknown Languages
– By Sherman SamJOAN SNYDER: A Year in the Painting Life
– By Corina LarkinRYAN HUMPHREY: Look for the dream that keeps coming back
– By Charles SchultzArt Books in Review
– By Greg LindquistMARISA MERZ
– By Cora FisherBROOKLYN DISPATCHES: I Wish They All Could Be California...
– By James Kalm"That Barnett Newman 'Onement' Painting Is, Like, So 1948"
– By Shane McAdamsChaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936
– By Thomas MicchelliAUDREY FLACK and the Revolution of Still Life Painting
– By Robert C. MorganROY LICHTENSTEIN The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968
– By Terry R. MyersDIETER ROTH, BJÖRN ROTH Work Tables & Tischmatten
– By Valery OisteanuTRIBBLE & MANCENIDO Hurry Up & Wait
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataARLENE SHECHET The Sound of It
– By Kara L. RooneyLetter from Berlin
– By David RhodesNueva York (1613–1945)
– By David St.-LascauxNICOLAS CARONE: In Memoriam (1917 – 2010)
– By David RigsbeeGORDON ONSLOW FORD Paintings and Works on Paper: 1939–1951
– By John YauJONAS MEKAS To New York With Love
– By Michael Newton
Books
The Political Eisenberg
– By Andrea ScrimaRICHARD HINE with Sarah Gerard
– By Sarah GerardBlank Like Me
– By Brendan ByrneLost and Congealed
– By Samantha Ecker AngerameA Fate More Than Death
– By Sarah GerardEmpire Wilderness
– By Adam FitzgeraldThe Other Paris
– By Gary LainForget It, Santiago, It's Chinatown
– By Jeffrey StanleyFrom the Woods, A Peach
– By Nicolle ElizabethHistory for the Taking
– By David Varno
Music
Never Felt So Much Alive
– By Kurt GottschalkThe Girls Can't Help It
– By Kate SilverPower for Power
– By John AmelchenkoMAGMA SUN WURDAH, NANSEI HEL MAGMA!
(Magma Is Dead, Long Live Magma!)– By Jamian Juliano-VillaniOUTTAKES
– By Steve DalachinskyThe Secret Life of Plant
– By Julie Kocsis
Dance
Building a Body of Work: Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham
– By Mary Lisa BurnsA Full Moon to Mark the End: PINA BAUSCH
– By Patricia Milder
Film
Sex, Lies and Black Socks: Alex Gibney's Client 9
– By Williams Cole and Williams ColeERIC DANIEL METZGAR with Penny Lane
– By Penny LaneHorror Is As Horror Does
– By Lu Chen
Theater
Made in Brooklyn: The Civilians' Battle Over Atlantic Yards
– By Michele TravisThe Art of Duel: NICK JONES with Eliza Bent
– By Eliza BentFLIGHT & BLISS: The Work of James Thiérrée
– By Elana GreenfieldThe Macbeths in the Prism of Noh: Ping Chong Stage's Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
– By Alan Lockwood
Fiction
The Study
– By John Robert LennonAngel Face
– By Terese SvobodaThe Financier
– By Terese SvobodaNo One Ever Interrupted Me: Jim Carroll & The Petting Zoo
– By Margarita ShalinaTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyThe Big Pig Shoot
– By Tim W. BrownShitty Micky
– By John Reed and Michele Witchipoo
Poetry
a walk to the butcher's @ sunset
(For Tuli Kupferberg)– By Steve DalachinskyEspalier in Autumn
– By Paul Bozkurtfrom, I thought you said it was sound
– By Steph Gray"The Verge of a Language"
– By Barry Schwabsky