June 2012
The “June 2012” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 4, 2012.
Editor’s Message
Notes on Altered States
– By Ken Johnson
Local
A Field of One's Own
– By Mary MannREPORT CARD
A Philadelphia Story– By Liza FeatherstoneFootsteps into a New Life
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
Docs in Sight: Blood and Silence on La Frontera
Bernardo Ruiz with Williams ColeGoofing Off
– By William Rossa ColeEarthship, New Mexico
– By Samara ReighOUR NADA WHO ART IN NADA: Notes on Suicide
– By Jonah RaskinBEAUTY AND THE BEAST:
A Dispatch from Athens– By Katerina TriantafillouA QUI LE QUÉBEC? Scenes from the Maple Spring
– By MJ ThompsonARTS AND LETTERS: The Sequel
A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy– By Forrest HyltonNot So Wild About Wild
– By Orli Van MourikDeviant Reflections: A Voice for Sexual Freedom
– By David Rosen and David Rosen
Art
What is the Miami Rail?
– By Phong H. BuiJIM LEEDY with Kara Rooney
YAN PEI-MING with Charles Schultz
DANA SCHUTZ with Jarrett Earnest
Writing from Nowhere
– By Timothy R. QuigleyFRANK STOUT
(1926 – 2012)– By Robert Hullot-Kentor
ArtSeen
AARON CURRY Buzz Kill
– By Jonathan GoodmanRestrictions, Limitations, Confinements
– By Dan TarnowskiVARDA CAIVANO / YAEL DAVIDS
– By David RhodesSHURA CHERNOZATONSKAYA Raw/Cooked
– By Veronika SheerEARLY CONCEPTUAL ART: Documents, Installations, and Related Manifestations
– By Robert C. MorganDAN FLAVIN's Altering Light
– By Greg LindquistN. DASH
– By Michael StrausELLEN PHELAN Encyclopedia of Drawing, 1964 – 2012
– By Phong H. BuiCUI FEI & TACA SUI Origins
– By Charles SchultzTHE PARADE: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg
– By Kara L. RooneyAscent for Myron Stout and Ralph Ellison
– By Ben LaRoccoSAM GORDON trompe l'oeil
– By Gail Victoria Braddock QuagliataJOSEPH NECHVATAL nOise anusmOs
– By Robert C. MorganMARTIN PURYEAR New Sculpture
– By Phong H. BuiTAYLOR DAVIS
– By David St.-LascauxTime-Lapse
– By Corina LarkinLetter from TOKYO
– By Terry R. MyersFRANCESCA DIMATTIO Table Setting and Flower Arranging
– By Erin YerbyLetter from LEEDS
Windows and Doors– By William CorwinKELLY JAZVAC Thermoloaded
– By R. H. LossinANDRÉ MASSON
The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks from 1925 to 1945– By Valery Oisteanu
Books
BOA EDITIONS with Aspen Matis
CHRISTOPHER BRAM with Scott Cheshire
BIOGRAPHY
East Was Eden– By Jeremy LybargerFICTION
Drugs and Other Loves– By Jim FeastFICTION
THE OTHER WORLD– By Ashley K. NelsonMEMOIR
Writing 'Not the Whole Story' History– By Matt ReeckFICTION
Educated, Civilized, and Utterly Lost– By James Leon SuffernRAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightClose to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation
– By Jesse Tangen-MillsJENINE HOLMES with Rebecca Walker
A Counterfeit Tale, Full of Value
– By James Leon SuffernLittle Bit Sick
– By Luis Jaramillo
Music
The Raw and the Cooked
– By Andrew CappettaMusic of the Sphere
– By David St.-LascauxThe Constellar Sounds and Stories of Shelley Hirsch
– By Holly TavelOn Blunderbuss and Jack White's Lonesome Mass Appeal
– By Joseph KlarlForever's No Time at All
– By David ShirleyOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
DAVID GORDON with Nancy Dalva
Beginning of the End of the Beginning Of.Closer, Please
– By Siobhan BurkeIntimate Gatherings
– By Christine Shan Shan Hou
Theater
How to be a Feminist and Still Get Laid: Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn
– By Kathryn WalatSo. Seven playwrights, five directors, and four producers sit down to write a play...
– By Various AuthorsNoor Theatre Blazes New Light: Food and Fadwa at NYTW
– By Ginny MohlerAt Wrest in the Middle of Time with Will Eno
– By Ben GassmanChimichangas and Zoloft with Fernanda Coppel
– By Cusi Cram
Fiction
Tragic Strip
– By T. MotleyThe Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario Benedetti3 stories
– By Anna Mocklerfrom Clèves
– By Marie Darrieussecq, Translated from the French by Linda Coverdalefrom The Secret Life of Objects
– By Dawn Raffel
Poetry
Five
– By Marina LazzaraFour
– By Leopoldine CoreTwo
– By Jon LeonMinced Pollock
– By Judah Rubin
Art Books
CARSTEN HÖLLER: Artist's Portfolio
– By Hamilton MorrisVestiarium Scoticum
– By Sandeep BhullerBENJAMIN MARRA with Ashok Kondabolu
LastWords
from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem<br>A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith