September 2011
The “September 2011” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 5, 2011.
Editor’s Message
A New Anniversary
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
CITYNOTES
A New Anniversary– By Theodore HammNo Place to Sleep
– By Eleanor J. BaderREPORT CARD
Our Fake School Board– By Liza FeatherstoneAfter 9/11, Listening to the City
– By Abby ScherThe City Revealed
– By Jillian Steinhauer
Express
Time for a New Dance
– By Justin MitchellWORLD OF DEBT: DAVID GRAEBER with Spencer Woodman
WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE "NEW INDIA": SIDDHARTHA DEB with Scott Sherman
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF "TERRORISM"
IF A TREE FALLS'S SAM CULLMAN In Conversation with Williams ColeA Race to Nowhere
– By Ross BarkanA China Hand
– By Michael TerryVoilà, Paris!
– By Allen Wilcox
ArtSeen
How to Proceed in the Arts (after O'Hara and Rivers, with love)
– By Ben La Rocco and Craig OlsonCHARLES ATLAS Joints Array
– By Patricia MilderAI WEIWEI New York Photographs 1983 – 1993
– By John YauRAILING OPINION:
GODDESSES, OVARIES, AND THE SEDUCTRESS: Bring It On Home To Me– By Lisa Corinne DavisTale of The Tables
– By Denise LassawTRACEY EMIN
Love Is What You Want– By Vincent KatzBROOKLYN DISPATCHES
Game-Changer?– By James KalmCY TWOMBLY Sculpture
– By Anne Sherwood PundykLa Saison de Claude-Oskar Monet
– By Robert C. MorganIN VENICE: Schnabel and the Persistence of Art
– By Robert C. MorganLa Carte D'Après Nature
– By Cora FisherKRISTYNA AND MAREK MILDE In Loving Memory
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataAGA OUSSEINOV In the Middle of Erewhon II
– By Veronika SheerTALK TO ME: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
– By David St.-LascauxMORGAN PACKARD
Dihedral Product– By Charles SchultzAUROCH'S LIBRARY Chess Match
– By Benjamin GottliebLetter from BERLIN
– By David RhodesCan I Get a Witness?
JOSHUA ABELOW, JOACHIM "YOYO" FRIEDRICH, and MATT CONNOLLY– By Linnea Kniaz
Books
LYNNE TILLMAN with Caroline Ball
THE POWER OF SECOND
JOHAN HARSTAD with Ann VotawPOETRY
The Gay Man Who Loved Women– By James CihlarCRITICISM
Death Agents– By John BenganCOLLECTION
Madame Futurist– By Len GutkinFICTION
Smoke and Mirrors– By Randy RosenthalMEMOIR
The Serial Name-Dropper– By Ray AbernathyBIOGRAPHY
Keeping Score– By Connie AitchesonFICTION
Studio Portrait– By Mani ParchamA Very Productive Season
– By Nicolle ElizabethRAPID TRANSIT
Or A Fistful of Fulfilling Fall Books– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Music
New York's Best-Kept Jazz Secret
– By William S. NiederkornALAN PIERSON: Making "Brooklyn's Orchestra"
– By George GrellaThe Thunder Sheet, the Zither, and the Mousepad
– By David St.-LascauxThe Geist of Independence
– By Laura Flierl
Dance
LALALALANDIA
– By Brennan Gerard and Ryan KellyThe Accidental Activist
– By Aaron MattocksAt the Merce Fair
– By M.J. ThompsonIn Proximity of a Public in Process
– By Ben EvansAUDIENCE-GENERATED PERFORMANCE: A Summer Spent Watching
– By Sarah Maxfield
Film
CINEMA AS AN EVENT: An Interview with Light Industry's Ed Halter
– By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael RakesDIFFICULT FACTS
Esfir Shub and the Problem of Realism– By Anastasiya OsipovaGOD NEVER DIES
Eugenio Polgovsky's The Inheritors– By Polly BresnickACTIVISTS & ALIENS: Films of Unrest at the 2011 Festival del Film Locarno
– By Leo Goldsmith
Theater
The Mindscape of Septimus and Clarissa: Ripe Time Adapts Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
– By Patricia LaurenceCome 'n' Get It: Conni's Restaurant Lands in Brooklyn
– By Melissa F. MoschittoConnie Congdon needs to have her mouth washed out with soap
– By Julia Brownell
Fiction
Mappa Mundi: The Structure of Western Thought
– By Douglas GloverTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyShitty Mickey
Art Books
Nicely Dressed Noise
– By Al BurianANDY'S ANIMALS
– By Benjamín Schultz-FigueroaVITAL VICTUALS: A (POST)MODERN REMIX
– By Jeffrey P. SmithMUSIK ALS TRÄGER VON IDEEN
– By John BeesonNeither Wife Nor Widow
– By Abbe Schriber