November 2022
Featuring interviews with Laddie John Dill, Kamrooz Aram, Emily Mae Smith, and Michael Brenson on David Smith. Guest Critic Emmanuel Iduma: “Balance of Stories.”
The “November 2022” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 2, 2022.
Critics Page
Balance of Stories
– By Emmanuel IdumaFashionably Late
– By Yemisi AribisalaThe Smell of Bread Forms a Map of a Life
– By Joshua Segun-LeanA Solid Image, A Sunlit Path
– By Joseph Omoh NdukwuWho Shall I Say is Calling?
– By Kemi FalodunTall House
– By Sabo KpadeWhom did he love?
– By Immaculata AbbaLanding in Bioko
– By Yinka Elujobabeauty begrudged refuses to pose again
– By Ọlákìítán AdéoláA Reimagination of the Bimbia Slave Port
– By Sada MalumfashiLike a Mask Dancing
– By IfeOluwa Nihinlola
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Kamrooz Aram: Elusive Ornament
– By Dina A. RamadanMerrill Wagner
– By Joan WaltemathHowardena Pindell: A New Language
– By Maximiliane LeuschnerZac Hacmon: Mia
– By Emireth Herrera ValdésRobert C. Morgan: The Loggia Paintings: Early and Recent Work
– By Raphy SarkissianAnn McCoy, Paulina Peavy, and Olga Spiegel
– By Christine DavisBeatriz Milhazes: Mistura Sagrada
– By David EbonyRobert C. Morgan: The Loggia Paintings: Early and Recent Work
– By Jonathan GoodmanXaviera Simmons: Crisis Makes a Book Club
– By William CorwinHekate’s Grove: Elizabeth Insogna, Karen Heagle, Kay Turner
– By Ksenia M. SobolevaGrant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio
– By Alex A. JonesFederico Solmi: Joie De Vivre
– By Mark BlochFrancine Tint: Life in Action
– By David EbonyUrsula von Rydingsvard: LUBA
– By Amanda GluibizziRan Hwang: Becoming Again
– By Robert C. MorganFiona Rae
– By Barbara A. MacAdamAngel Otero: Swimming Where Time Was
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightTirtzah Bassel: Canon in Drag
– By Christopher T. RichardsCarol Saft: The Cynnie Paintings
– By Amanda Millet-SorsaAlex Katz: Gathering
– By Tom McGlynnMorris Hirshfield Rediscovered
– By Wendy BlakeThe 58th Carnegie International: Is it morning for you yet?
– By David CarrierHenrike Naumann: Re-Education
– By Annabel KeenanBeyond Caravaggio: A New Account of Neapolitan Painting
– By David CarrierPreetika Rajgariah: Servicing Self
– By KK KozikCy Twombly
– By Jonathan T.D. NeilIN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY
– By Amelia SaulOscar Murillo: A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise
– By Osman Can YerebakanDavid Novros: Paintings
– By David RhodesDean Fleming: Fourth Dimension
– By Tom McGlynnWild Strawberries
– By Jonathan GoodmanRon Gorchov: Watercolors 1968–1980
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightRodrigo Valenzuela: New Works for a Post Worker’s World
– By Robert R. ShaneGabriel Orozco: Diario de Plantas
– By Hearne PardeeNiki de Saint Phalle
– By Alice GodwinBayne Peterson: Mirage
– By Amanda GluibizziJosephine Pryde: The Vibrating Slab and Club Med
– By Alexandra DrexeliusEmily Mae Smith: Heretic Lace
– By William CorwinSol LeWitt: Wall Drawings & Structures
– By Alfred Mac AdamEJ Hauser at WINDOW
– By Louis BlockRandy Wray: Travelogue
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Books
Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris
– By Andrew ErvinMary Ann Caws’s Mina Loy: Apology of Genius
– By Charlotte KentIn Search of The Third Bird: Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER) 2001–2021
– By Jerónimo Duarte-RiascosMichael Seidenberg’s Unsolicited Advice for the End Times
– By J.T. PriceMircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid
– By Alta IflandTed Conover with J.C. Hallman
– By J. C. HallmanBob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song
– By Raymond FoyeLike Being In Your Head Not Mine
– By Bianca Stone
Music
Kamikaze Jones with Jennifer Vanilla
– By Kamikaze JonesThe Propulsive Sound of Nader Khalil
– By Cassidy McFadzeanSly & The Family Drone: Disturbing Sonics in Birmingham, England
– By Martin LongleyPromise of Glory
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
PROPHET: The Order of the Lyricist
– By Amanda ChenAccumulation
– By Gillian JakabVESSEL: Seeing Double
– By Noa Weiss and Nora Raine ThompsonHalf a Dozen Fresh Baked Dances
– By Hallie Chametzky
Film
Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg
– By Dan SchindelAndrew Dominik's Blonde
– By Brianna Di MondaPark Chan-wook's Decision to Leave
– By Jawni HanKevin Smith's Clerks III
– By Edward MendezThe 60th New York Film Festival
– By Laura Valenza
Theater
That's Just, Like, Your Interpretation
– By Dan O'NeilAt JACK's Radical Acts, Experimentation—and Failure—are Most Welcome
– By Lily GoldbergA Song for the Strivers in Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
from A Cat at the End of the World
– By Robert Perišić and Vesna Maricfrom Blood Red
– By Gabriela Ponce and Sarah Booker
Poetry
two
– By Chia-Lun Changseven
– By Ari Lisnertwenty-nine
– By Mike Toppnine
– By Betsy Fagin
Art Books
Maria Lassnig: The Biography
– By Karen ChernickBaldwin Lee
– By Sarah MorozBettina
– By Noa WesleyVisible: Text + Image
– By Jenny WuKate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
– By Wyatt Sarafin
Special Report
Culture as Strategy for Survival
– By Nina Chkareuli
Field Notes
Women, Life, Freedom
– By Arash AziziThe Story of No One From Sri Lanka
– By Indrajit SamarajivaMichael Kazin’s What It Took To Win
– By Charlie PostLancaster, So Much to Answer For
– By S. Prasad
The Miraculous
26. 1965, Los Angeles
– By Raphael Rubinstein27. October 17, 1961, a train platform in Dartford, England
– By Raphael Rubinstein28. 1970, the London Underground
– By Raphael Rubinstein29. 1965, Los Angeles
– By Raphael Rubinstein30. 1945, Paris
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Art and Technology
Painting, Protest and the Plural Potential of Web3
– By Charlotte Kent