November 2011
The “November 2011” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 2, 2011.
Publisher's Message
Note from the Publisher
– By Phong H. Bui
Local
In the Battle of the Open Heart
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsA Poem for a Sunday Occupational Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club (10.16.2011)
– By Paul McLeanREPORT CARD
Education for the 99 Percent– By Liza FeatherstoneOWS, From A-Z
– By Theodore HammLetters to the Mayor
– By Theodore HammPoets Before Profits
– By Eleanor J. BaderGentlemen Close Your Legs
– By Chavisa Woods
Express
Capitalism Makes Me Sick
– By Ina P.ZELIG OF THE LEFT:
BILL ZIMMERMAN with Lawrence WeschlerFilming Occupy Wall Street
Arthur Phillips Stole My Bike
– By John ReedMoral Memory
– By Allen WilcoxAfter the Revolutions
– By Michael TerryCoup D'Medias
– By Pehr EnglenWhat Mexico Doesn't Need
– By Andrew G. WoodBack to Square One
– By Sara Versluis
ArtSeen
The Work of Stephen Mueller (1947 – 2011)
– By Stephanie BuhmannHOKUSAI Retrospective
– By David RhodesThe Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataTHE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE:
New Works by ANRI SALA– By Jason StopaTAMARA ZAHAYKEVICH Hey Harmonica!
– By Linnea KniazBRIAN JUNGEN
– By David St.-LascauxBARBARA TAKENAGA New Paintings
– By John YauNICOLA LÓPEZ Landscape X: Under Construction
– By Noah DillonJOANNE GREENBAUM 1612
– By John YauJOSEPHINE HALVORSON What Looks Back
– By John YauKATHARINA GROSSE One Floor Up More Highly
– By Kara L. RooneyLARI PITTMAN
– By Terry R. MyersG.T. PELLIZZI Transitional
– By Charles SchultzCover Me with Turtles (after Amy Cutler*)
– By Patricia MilderCan BOB DYLAN Paint?
– By Robert C. MorganLORI SIKORSKI
– By Jonathan GoodmanAD REINHARDT
Works from 1935–1945– By Michael CorrisCIVIC ACTION: A Vision for Long Island City
LISA YUSKAVAGE
– By Greg LindquistMARTHA WILSON and the Well-Examined Female Self
– By Edward M. Gómez
Books
FICTION
Seven Days in Rio– By Benjamin GottliebPOETRY
Three Sea Monsters: Our History of Whose Image– By John OlsonREBECCA WOLFF with Jade Sharma
ANTHOLOGY
Fantastic Women: 18 tales of the surreal and the sublime from Tin House– By Eliyanna KaiserFICTION
She or the unknown person– By Jim FeastFICTION
Broken Irish– By Zachary SlingsbyNONFICTION
Welcome to Utopia: Notes From a Small Town– By Mani ParchamFICTION
Mostly Redneck– By Nicolle ElizabethRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightTRANSLATION
Inferno– By Julia Guez
Music
Slum Gods of the Lower East Side
– By David ShirleyThere Ought to Be Fireworks
– By Dr. Shathley Q.Ambient Alienation and Structured Freedom
– By Marshall YarbroughWe Vibrate Occasionally
– By Billups Allen
Dance
I See Myself In You
– By Christine HouManipulative Tendencies
– By Christine HouGravity and Gravity
– By Thom DonovanDERICK GRANT with L.J. Sunshine
A Tale of Two Dances
– By Jeremy FinchGoing Forward, Going Back
– By Siobhan Burke
Film
FRAGMENTED SCREENS:
Archival Appropriation in Arab Experimental Film and Video at MoMA's Mapping Subjectivity– By Leo GoldsmithFORESTS OF UNCERTAINTY
The Contentious Nonfiction of Robert Gardner– By Rachael RakesAN INJURY TO ONE
– By Jason LivingstonPOSTCARD FROM THE AVANT-GARDE
Highlights from the 49th NYFF's Views– By Aily Nash and Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
Theater
The Edge of Togetherness in Carla Ching
– By Matthew Paul Olmos"Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?"
Canal Park Playhouse's revival of Joe Roland's On the Line– By Michelle MemranSupernatural Wife
Anne Carson and Big Dance Theater Make Euripides Move– By Cassandra CsencsitzSuperhero Clubhouse: the Call to Grow Theater
– By Melissa F. Moschitto
Fiction
The Plastic Factory
– By Ron KolmA Supposer...
– By Jacques Jouet Translated by Emily GogolakTragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
THIS TIME WE ARE EVERYTHING
Reflections On Clark Coolidge– By Vincent KatzFour
– By Vincent Katzfrom Matlike
– By Mary BurgerBlue Rain Morning
– By Jamey JonesEvel Knievel
– By Jamey Jones
Art Books
My Life in a Column
– By Natasha StaggREADING DOUBLE: The Book of Ruth
– By Cora FisherCORRESPONDENCE COURSE
An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle– By Jarrett EarnestJAMES CASTLE: Show and Store
– By John Ganz
LastWords
From The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith