Dec/Jan 2010–11
The “Dec/Jan 2010–11” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 7, 2010.
Editor’s Message
The Rail's PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2010
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Will the DOE Test for PCBs?
– By Eleanor J. BaderA Note from Dore Ashton
– By Dore AshtonBrooklyn's Comic Book Stores: A Pilgrimage
– By E. Tammy KimReturn of a Palace
– By T. K. DanovichRebound
– By M. J. CoreyThe Hard Nut and a Stiff Body
– By E. Tammy Kim
Express
Smithsonian: Just Put the Art Back
– By Michael B. KeeganQURRATULAIN HYDER: Voice of the South Asian Frontier
– By Hirsh SawhneyREPORT FROM INDONESIA: Frontline in the Fight Against Climate Change
– By Robert S. EshelmanMACEDONIAN MYTHMAKING: MILČO MANČEVSKI with Conor McGrady & Dario Šolman
A Holiday Letter From Santa Fe
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsTaibbi's Shark Hunt
– By Michael TerryMore Than a National Pastime
– By Sara VersluisIn the Manor of Lord Bryson
– By Allen Wilcox
ArtSeen
PETER SAUL Fifty Years of Painting / SVEN LUKIN Paintings, 1960 – 1971
– By John YauPAUL THEK Diver
– By Valery OisteanuPAUL THEK Diver
– By Maxwell HellerJOHN LEHR Stet
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataTumescent Follies, Inflated Money, and Kitschy Sex
– By Robert C. MorganTRACKS: Stephanie Brody-Lederman's Art of Whispers, Traces, and Fleeting Bons Mots
– By Edward M. GómezTRACKS: Reuben Kadish, The Anti-Hero of American Modern Art
– By Jill ConnerThe Crude and the Rare
– By Kara L. RooneySTANLEY LEWIS, HANS HARTUNG, MARGRIT LEWCZUK, and PETER ACHESON
– By Ben La RoccoANSELM KIEFER Next Year in Jerusalem
– By Stephanie BuhmannJILL NATHANSON's Quiet Vision
– By Joan WaltemathFRANCIS CAPE The Other End of the Line
– By Charles SchultzAlternative Histories
– By Thomas MicchelliPAT STEIR The Nearly Endless Line
– By Sharon L. ButlerBROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Those Damned Weeds
– By James KalmGEDI SIBONY
– By Greg LindquistMarksmen and the Palimpsests
– By Cora FisherART BOOKS IN REVIEW: How We Talk About Chuck Close
– By Benjamin GottliebMARCO BREUER The Nature of the Pencil
– By Shane McAdams179 Canal/Anyways
– By Anne Sherwood PundykLetter From PORTO
– By Sherman SamJORGE QUEIROZ
– By Corina LarkinLetter From BERLIN
– By David Rhodes
Books
KILLING IN THE NAME OF: Notes From the Chicago Indie Lit Scene
– By Ben TanzerSUSAN SHAPIRO with Nicolle Elizabeth
– By Nicolle ElizabethA NOBLE GESTURE How and Why We Read and Write: DAVID ULIN with Audrey Gray
– By Audrey GrayHushmoney Presents Rock Nostradamus: NICK KENT
– By Dr. Shathley QOut From Under Don
– By Mac BarrettUnfettered
– By Blake ButlerBEN MIROV'S Ghost Machine
– By B.C. EdwardsHear No, See No, Read No Evil
– By Christopher VolaTo Air Is Human
– By Rayyan Al-ShawafRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightA World to Lose
– By Ida Chung
Music
Diggin' the Gaps: How Ahmad Jamal Re-Tooled Jazz
– By Colin FlemingRead This
– By George GrellaNew! Improved! Mainstream! Conservative!
– By David St.-LascauxEnvironmental Studies
– By Dominic UmileOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyThe End of the End-of-Year List
– By Katy Henriksen
Dance
Collaborative Beginnings
Garth Fagan Dance Turns Forty
– By Michelle VellucciExistence and the Body, Three Ways
– By Patricia MilderDancing Dulce Et Decorum Est
– By David St.-LascauxREBECCA DAVIS's What I'm Saying Is Born From The Weather
– By Thom Donovan
Film
"I'm sorry, the screening starts when?" The 2010 New York Film Festival
– By David N. MeyerNocturnal Epic For a Dark Era
– By Lu ChenRevolutionary Homicide
– By Sarahjane Blum
Theater
Mothers Courage: Brooklyn Theater Mamas
The Everyday Art of Staying Alive: Honey Brown Eyes at The Working Theater
– By Andi StoverThe Broken Lines of Tommy Smith
– By Matthew Paul Olmos
Fiction
Character and Fitness: a serial novel
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsNight Crime
– By Emmanuel Bove, translated from the French by Alyson WatersShitty Micky
– By Michele Witchipoo and John ReedTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Two
– By David MillsVitale in School
– By Anna VitaleDepictions of a Screen Door, after James Castle
– By Thomas Devaney