May 2011
The “May 2011” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 4, 2011.
Publisher's Message
Note from the Publisher
– By Phong H. Bui
Editor’s Message
CITYNOTES: Honor in the Court
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
Brooklyn Leads Living Wage Fight
– By Diane KrauthamerCITYNOTES: Honor in the Court
– By Theodore HammSISTERS FIGHT to End Harassment in Schools
– By Eleanor J. BaderREPORT CARD: Drama of the "Gifted" Program
– By Liza Featherstonein Bensonhurst, There's a Chicken in Every (Melting) Pot
– By Adam Warner
Express
On, Wisconsin
– By Paul MattickA Mother's Days
– By Joan McClureQUPQUGIAQ
An Alaskan Folk Tale Retold– By Josh MedskerSuicide by the Bathtub Light
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsA New Deal Flop
– By Michael TerryPOINTS OF MORAL FRICTION
When Classes Confront Each Other– By David Rosen and David RosenAll the Gorey Details
– By Christopher MichelLetters to Posterity
– By Allen Wilcox
ArtSeen
In the Use of Others for the Change
– By Thomas MicchelliAbstraction's Ambiguity is Its Own Reward
– By Edward M. GómezGray Cat
– By Ben La RoccoFirst Class / Second Class
– By Cassandra NeyeneschDAVID ALTMEJD
– By Kara L. RooneyEVA HESSE and SOL LEWITT
– By Stephanie BuhmannGERMAN EXPRESSIONISM: The Graphic Impulse
– By Thomas MicchelliNEIL FARBER Slugging
– By Shane McAdamsSPECIALIZED VISION Curating Grace Exhibition Space
– By Patricia MilderJUDY LINN 69-76 Photographs of Patti Smith
– By David St.-LascauxLet it End Like This
– By Gail QuagliataMARI EASTMAN Objects, Decorative and Functional
– By Anne Sherwood PundykSCOTT HOCKING
– By Lynn CrawfordWhere Malevich Has Left Us Today
– By Robert C. MorganBrooklyn Dispatches
– By James KalmRomare Bearden (1911-1988): Collage, A Centennial Celebration
– By Valery OisteanuJAMES CLARK The Luminiferous Aether
– By Craig OlsonLAUREL NAKADATE Only the Lonely
– By John YauDEBORAH LIGORIO Escursione Meridionale
– By David Rhodes
Books
RUDOLPH HERZOG with Karen Rester
RADICAL DAY CARE
The 2011 NYC Anarchist Book Fair– By Patrick GaughanOn Elegance While Sleeping
– By Jesse Tangen-MillsThe Craigslist Murders: A Satire
– By Tatiaana L. LaineLovelorn and Love Worn
– By Gregory GerkeSchool of Thought
– By Nicolle ElizabethThe Weather Ahead
– By Kianoosh HashemzadehDanny Boyle In His Own Words
– By Mike HalmshawWingshooters
– By Maggie HillA Micro House of One's Own
– By Helen MitsiosExquisite Corpses
– By Jeffrey StanleyRapid Transit
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightZen and the Art of Psycho-Oncology
– By Siobhan DevinePOETRY: The Sublime in the Middle Ages
– By Scott Hightower
Music
Synaptic Virginity, Lost
– By David St.-LascauxOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyBALKING HEAVILY
The Residents' Talking Light Tour at the Highline Ballroom– By Jamian Juliano-VillaniBig Drum Lives In Brooklyn!
– By Geoffrey ClarfieldBuilt for Speed
– By Justin VellucciPolly Jean Warms Up (A Bit)
– By Julie Kocsis
Dance
Slow Movement
– By Jeremy FinchOf Cosmos, Cake, and Crossing Disciplines
– By Siobhan BurkeDIY Dance
– By Christine HouMeta Meta
– By Michelle VellucciFamily Values
– By M.J. ThompsonI Was, I Am
– By Elaine StuartDown Under
– By Frances Kazan
Film
GODZILLA VS. THE PREHISTORIC BISON
On Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams– By Marianne ShaneenSPINNING TOP
The Legacy of Dziga Vertov Keeps Moving– By Mónica SavirónJUSTICE ON TRIAL
REBECCA RICHMAN COHEN with Penny Lane– By Penny LaneMigrating Forms 2011
– By Aily NashTHAI FUSION Uruphong Raksasad's Agrarian Utopia and Stories from the North
– By Colin Beckett
Theater
The Foundry Theater's NYC...Just Like I Pictured It
– By Jake HookerThe Revolution Will Be....Poetic People Power
– By Melissa F. MoschittoCut! Unscripting Reality with Crystal Skillman
– By Joshua ConkelThe Theater at Home: 31 Down
– By Frank Boudreaux
Fiction
A Collection of Stories
– By Daniel GrandboisGerontophobia
– By Jessica RogersFÉDER or the Gilded Husband
– By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian EvensonUNSCIENCE FICTIONS
Richard Kostelanetz in memory of Robert Heinlien– By Richard KostelanetzCharacter and Fitness: Chapter 9
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsCharacter and Fitness: Chapter 10
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Practiced Restraint
– By Lawrence GiffinFormerly Death
– By Priscilla BeckerThree Poems
– By Leonard Schwartz
Art Books
The Eye Watching the Eye Paint
– By Greg LindquistPainting: Dead and Loving It
– By John GanzLA DÉCORATION! TOUT EST DANS CE MOT: Mallarmé's Writings on Fashion
– By Eugenie DallandThe New Woman in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
– By Abbe SchriberTry a Little Tenderness
– By John Beeson