May 2018
The “May 2018” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 30, 2018.
Critics Page
Migrating Places, Diasporic Beings, and The Ghost of Our Loss (Collage)
– By Octavio ZayaCaracas-Havana: The Dirty Word Exile
– By Gabriela RangelA Tale of Crossroads
– By Shoja AzariNew Notes of a Native Son
– By Michele RobecchiDiasporic Memory
– By Hayv KahramanElements of Peaceful Engagement. Ingredients
– By Marlena KudlickaWind Advisory (On Crossing Borders)
– By Jose FalconiBlurred Alterity
– By Fernando Bryce
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
JAMES HYDE:
West– By Hovey BrockTERRY WINTERS:
Facts & Fictions– By William WhitneyRefiguring The Future
– By Eleanor HeartneyArt in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today
– By Will FenstermakerZiggy's Reliquaries
– By Mark DeryDavid Bowie Is
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesSEAN SHIM-BOYLE: Jack
– By Swagato ChakravortyHarlem Perspectives: Decolonizing the Gaze & Refiguring the Local
– By Nico WheadonDARREN WATERSTON:
Ecstatic Landscape– By Alex A. JonesGETA BRĂTESCU:
The Leaps of Aesop– By Grant Klarich JohnsonSUE WILLIAMS
– By Grant Klarich JohnsonKlimt and Schiele: Drawn
– By Steven PestanaPainting After Postmodernism:
Belgium-USA-Italy– By Tom McGlynnDOUG AITKEN:
New Era– By David CarrierARLENE SHECHET:
Some Truths– By Phong H. BuiKELTIE FERRIS:
(F(U(T()U)R)E)– By David RhodesThe Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García
– By Benjamin CliffordDANIEL RICH:
Never Forever– By Barbara A. MacAdamMARY REID KELLEY and PATRICK KELLEY:
We are Ghosts– By Alex A. JonesBeing: New Photography
– By Phillip GriffithHANK WILLIS THOMAS:
Black Archival Memory & Its Conceits– By Nico WheadonJANE CORRIGAN:
Ma Paw– By Alfred Mac AdamGEDI SIBONY:
The King and the Corpse– By William CorwinVisions of Order and Chaos: The Enlightened Eye
– By Steven PestanaVisions of Order and Chaos: The Enlightened Eye
– By Graham Shearing and David CarrierADRIAN PIPER:
From Passing to Purple– By Nico WheadonADRIAN PIPER:
A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965—2016– By Nicole MillerPABLO HELGUERA & SUZANNE LACY:
The Schoolhouse and The Bus: Mobility, Pedagogy, and Engagement– By Vijay MasharaniSPENCER FINCH:
Me, Myself and I (A Group Show)– By Hearne PardeeEDUARDO NAVARRO:
Into Ourselves– By Osman Can YerebakanSADE: Artists Under the Influence
– By Mary Ann CawsTHEODORE DARST & COLLIN LEITCH:
Not Every Place You Fit In Is Where You Belong– By Ida PruittROBIN WINTERS:
The Thrum and The Thrall– By Hovey BrockMOYRA DAVEY:
1943– By Jan AvgikosDAVID AUSTEN:
the stars above the ocean the ocean beneath the stars– By Hovey BrockThe Sun Teaches Us That History Is Not Everything
– By Vivian LiHours and Places
– By J CStories of Almost Everyone
– By Hannah Sage Kay
Books
Ursula K. Le Guin’s No Time to Spare
– By Yvonne C. GarrettRoxane Gay’s Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
– By Matt GrantJulián Herbert’s Tomb Song
– By Maya ChungMeg Wolitzer’s The Female Persuasion
– By Yvonne C. GarrettDorothy Parker with a Ph.D.
– By John DominiBRIAN EVENSON
with Peter MarkusTONY LEUZZI
with Pirooz KalayehA Suspended G(l)aze: On Errancy & Arrivals in Camp Marmalade
– By Chris CampanioniMichelle Reale’s The Indispensable Academic Librarian
– By Yvonne C. GarrettAlexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
– By Matt GrantLESLIE JAMISON
with Eric FarwellMoveable Feast:
DUNCAN HANNAH
with Frank Pizzoli
Music
Deep in the Groove of History: The Art of Conduction: A Conduction Workbook
– By George GrellaSavannah Music Festival
– By Martin LongleyJourney to the South:
Makan Ashgvari’s To Trucks– By Yasi AlipourOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyMay Selections
– By Brad CohanBlood Memories: Matana Roberts at the Park Avenue Armory
– By George Grella
Dance
JACK FERVER with Ivan Talijancic
– By Ivan TalijancicBouquets within Reach
– By Mike StinavageComfort, Humor, and Grace
– By Susan YungReid & Harriet: A Site for New Approaches to Production Design
– By Caroline Stinger
Film
BLAKE WILLIAMS
with Phil ColdironUnder the Paving Stones, the Sewers! “For Another ’68” at Cinéma du Réel
– By Celluloid Liberation FrontThe Sacred Wood: Nathaniel Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle
– By Max GoldbergThe End of the Affair: On Hong Sangsoo’s The Day After
– By Sarah Mankoff
Theater
The Rooted Adventure of Target Margin: 1001 Nights in Sunset Park
– By Jim KnableThe Absurdity of American Acclimation: TRISH HARNETIAUX with Liza Birkinmeier
– By Liza BirkenmeierA View from the Wings: My Fair Lady
– By Ginny Mohler
Fiction
from The Chronicle
–Accidental Improvements
– By Kimberly King ParsonsMichael Row the Boat Ashore
– By John ReedinSerial: part eighteen
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis Warshfrom The Empty Room
– By Sadia Abbasfrom SHEEP MACHINE
– By Vi Khi NaoGun Control Facts You Didn’t Know You Should Be Mad At!
– By Joshua DanielHighlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #4: Afrique
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts
– By Andrew Levyfour
– By John Godfrey“Husbands Are Deadlier Than Terrorists”
– By Laura SolomonAISHA SABATINI SLOAN
with Vi Khi Naofour
– By Jared Stanleythree
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Art Books
Zoe Leonard: Survey
– By Brianna LeatherburyNothing Personal
– By Bartolomeo SalaBlack Out:
Silhouettes Then and Now– By Hannah StamlerMADELINE SCHWARTZMAN with Joyce Beckenstein
Field Notes
Editor’s Note
– By Paul MattickMay-June 1968:
What Happened– By Charles ReeveDocument 1:
WHY SOCIOLOGISTS?Document 2:
A FLASH FIRE OR THE BEGINNING OF A CONFLAGRATION?Document 3:
POWER TO THE WORKERS COUNCILSDocument 4:
DEFEND OUR STRIKEDocument 5:
UNIONS AND WORKERSClass Struggle at the Folies Bergères
– By Jorge ValadasMay Days: What It Was Like
– By Francois CeruttiMay ’68 was the beginning of something: LAURE BATTIER and CATHERINE MAYEN
with Charles Reeve