March 2012
The “March 2012” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 2, 2012.
Critics Page
Dove Sta Memoria
– By Robert Storr
Local
REPORT CARD
Beware the Return of For-Profit Schools– By Liza FeatherstoneOccupy Main Street
– By Paul McLeanFIGHTING FOR THE SLAVE: a photo essay
– By Jim LaffertyREPORT CARD
Ending Mayoral Control– By Liza FeatherstoneThe CLEANING of a GREAT CITY
(McClure's, April 1897)– By George E. Waring, Jr. Commissioner of Street Cleaning, New YorkFaith in Filmmaking
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
The Baffler is back from the dead . . . again
– By Orli Van MourikThe Santorum Syndrome
– By Michael TerryTHE DRUG WAR INSIDE
– By Jason Flores-WilliamsOEDIPAL CONTEXT A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
– By Forrest HyltonA Life in Underground Letters | BARNEY ROSSET with Williams Cole
AMINA ARRAF: A "Queered" Antidote
– By Nancy AgabianShirking the New Literacy
– By Adrian VersteeghA Dirty Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
– By Orli Van MourikPerversion Is No Longer Perverse
– By David Rosen and David RosenA Drink To Remember
– By R. H. Lossin
ArtSeen
A Studio Visit with Franklin Evans: EYESONTHEEDGE
– By Kara L. RooneyJEAN DUBUFFET The Last Two Years
– By Valery OisteanuSERGEJ JENSEN Sergej Jensen
– By Linnea KniazTHOMAS SCHEIBITZ A Panoramic View of Basic Events
– By Jonathan GoodmanJOSEF ALBERS Paintings, Drawings, Prints
– By David RhodesFLORINE STETTHEIMER Hieroglyphs of Pleasure
– By Jarrett EarnestBILL JACKLIN Recent Work, New York
– By David St.-LascauxJANET FISH Recent Paintings
– By Vincent KatzUNTITLED FRIEZE FAIR 2007 Installation by Gert and Uwe Tobias
– By Anne Sherwood PundykBOSILJKA RADITSA The Nature of Memory
– By William CorwinGEORGE ORTMAN
– By Robert C. MorganMAGNUS PLESSEN
– By Stephanie BuhmannPATRICK WILSON Color Space
– By Corina LarkinLIU XIA The Silent Strength of Liu Xia
– By Charles Schultz
Books
RICHARD SIEBURTH with Adam Fitzgerald
BIOGRAPHY
Flawed Composition– By Joseph NechvatalFICTION
The Young and the Radical– By Rayyan Al-ShawafFICTION
Resurrected Fiction– By Marietta BrillFICTION
Salvation Army of One– By Malcolm ForbesFICTION
Status of Limitations– By Jenine HolmesFICTION
Fall Into the Future– By Philip BrunstRAPID TRANSIT
Part Epitaph, Part History, Part Malaprop, Part Orgasm– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightFICTION
The Man With the Golden Pen– By Jim FeastFICTION
A Diminished Season– By Malcolm ForbesCHRISTOPHER BOLLEN with Joseph Klarl
FICTION
Going Back to Patchogue– By Dan Visel
Music
VANISHING POINT: Will the RIAA and MPAA Wipe International Music Off the Globe?
– By Gary SullivanWaiting For the (Thin) Man
– By Todd SimmonsTour Diary of Das Racist's 2012 Australia/New Zealand Relax Tour, January 19–February 5, 2012
– By Ashok Kondabolu AKA DapwellREALLY GOOD VIBRATIONS: Harry Bertoia's Sonambient Sound Sculptures
– By David St.-LascauxOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyIT'S GOTTA BE THE SHOES: The Gories and Mark Sultan at the Bell House
– By Billups Allen
Dance
Paul Taylor Dance Company | PAUL TAYLOR with Nancy Dalva
At Home in the Body
– By Siobhan BurkeNeither Here Nor There
– By Christine Shan Shan HouBatsheva Dance Company, HORA | OHAD NAHARIN with Evan Namerow
Film
L'ART LE PLUS POLITIQUE | NICOLE BRENEZ with Donal Foreman
AGAINST INTERPRETATION: Hong Sang-soo at the Museum of Moving Image
– By Colin BeckettAndrzej Żuławski at BAM
– By Troy SwainEROS PLUS MASSACRE: Transgressive Romances from Japan and South Korea at the Japan Society
– By R. Emmet SweeneyNEWS FROM EVERYWHERE: Selections from MoMA's Documentary Fortnight 2012
– By Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes
Theater
Talking Band's Hot Lunch Apostles Serves Up Religion, Raunch, and Desperation
– By Rachel KranzExcerpt from Hot Lunch Apostles
– By Sidney GoldfarbResuscitating Carrie
LAWRENCE D. COHEN with Tommy SmithDaniel Fish: A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (After David Foster Wallace)
– By Gary Winter
Fiction
The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario BenedettiTragic Strip
– By T. MotleyWatch Love Grow
– By Melissa Febos
Poetry
Two Sonnets for Joe Green
– By Ben MazerDouble Exposure
– By Charles Borkhuisfrom tidelands [latde/latte]
– By Craig Santos Perezfrom Periodic Companions
– By Laynie BrowneSeven
– By Rodrigo ToscanoHell's Angels
– By Ben Mazer
Art Books
The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
– By Carol Z. Clark and Orlo H. ClarkMargaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass
– By Jonathan BeerAre You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art
– By Lily Koto OliveCollage Culture: Examining the 21st Century's Identity Crisis
– By Eugenie Dalland
LastWords
from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith