April 2024
Featuring interviews with Loie Hollowell, Albert Oehlen, Pat Steir, and Kay WalkingStick. Guest Critic Alice Notley: “What Does It Feel Like To Write A Poem?”
The “April 2024” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 3, 2024.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
What Does It Feel Like To Write A Poem?
– By Alice NotleyOn a Journey You Only Know You Are Going—Writing Poetry and the Move into Another House
– By Diane GlancyOn Pleasure in Poetry in An Bình
– By Dale Martin SmithRisen Above Ashen Laterality
– By Will AlexanderAntechamber
– By Chris TyshThrowing a Largely Continuous Net
– By Cedar SigoPleasure in Poetry
– By Martin Corless-SmithBecoming Nothing
– By The FriendEleni Sikelianos
Poem
– By Edmund BerriganThe Lost Poet’s Teacher
– By David Rosenberg
ArtSeen
Thomas Nozkowski: Everything in the World
– By Louis BlockFotoFest Biennial 2024: Critical Geography
– By Madison FordTeruko Yokoi
– By Elizabeth BuheDawn Kim and Phil Chang
– By James WellingHayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us
– By Rosa Boshier GonzálezClaude Viallat: Made in Nîmes
– By David RhodesChuck Close: Red, Yellow, and Blue: The Last Paintings
– By Eileen CostelloDonna Dennis: Houses and Hotels
– By David EbonyClaude Lawrence: Reflections on Porgy and Bess
– By Mark BlochAccommodating the Object: Bosiljka Raditsa and Elizabeth Yamin
– By Jonathan GoodmanAnna Ting Möller: grafting, for that which grows and that which bars
– By Qingyuan DengSargent Claude Johnson
– By Margot YaleHarold Cohen: AARON
– By Saul OstrowEric Fischl: Hotel Stories
– By Alfred Mac AdamSam Jablon: Linger Longer
– By Saul OstrowCeija Stojka: We Lived in Secrecy (A Roma Memory)
– By David CarrierDream Time
– By Hindley WangPeter Sacks: For the Record
– By Phyllis TuchmanChristopher Wool: See Stop Run
– By Amanda GluibizziChristopher Wool: See Stop Run
– By Richard HellChristopher Wool: See Stop Run
– By Andrew Paul WoolbrightRichard Hunt: Early Masterworks
– By Jessica HolmesStan VanDerBeek: Transmissions
– By Stephen FraileyCarmen Herrera: Paintings on Paper
– By David EbonyMo Kong: Swift Island Chain
– By Caitlin AnklamTerry Fox: All These Different Things Are Sculpture
– By Cassie PackardPeter Sacks: For the Record
– By Selena ParnonGeorge Segal: Themes and Variations
– By Robert TaplinLoie Hollowell
– By Elizabeth BuhePaul Wesenberg: Half Past Paradise
– By Ekin ErkanMel Kendrick: Cutting Corners
– By Barbara A. MacAdamRaymond Saunders: Post No Bills
– By William CorwinEyal Danieli: Late Works
– By Daniel LichtAmoako Boafo: The one that got away
– By Charles MooreCathrine Raben Davidsen: Let Everything Happen to You
– By Alice GodwinGraham Little
– By Jenny WuPat Adams: Works from the 1950s and ’60s
– By Alfred Mac AdamJean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street
– By Terry R. MyersElaine Cameron-Weir: A WAY OF LIFE
– By Hindley WangWhitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing
– By Charles SchultzDelcy Morelos & Ettore Spalletti
– By Chloe StagamanJess: Piling Up The Rectangles
– By Patrick HillHuma Bhabha: Welcome…to the one who came
– By William Corwin
Books
Ada Limón with Mandana Chaffa
George Guida with John Domini
Caoilinn Hughes’s The Alternatives
– By Yvonne C. GarrettRichard Scott Larson’s The Long Hallway
– By Daniel Allen CoxJohn Reed with Tiffany Troy
Elliott Gish with Allison Wyss
Caroline Crampton’s A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
– By Sara PolskyGabriel García Márquez’s Until August
– By Iman SultanPercival Everett’s James
– By Samuele F.S. PardiniSoraya Palmer with Matthew Vollmer
Music
On the Radio
– By George GrellaRafael Toral And His Magical Wild-Forest Electroacoustic Orchestrations
– By Martin LongleyOpening the Door
– By Scott GuttermanThe Old Metal Gods
– By Andrey Henkin
Dance
Resonant Rituals
– By Hannah Chang FosterEun-Me Ahn with Phoebe Roberts
– By Phoebe RobertsLydia Abarca and Karen Valby with Phoebe Roberts
A Reality of No Return
– By Candice ThompsonSo Many, Many Steps in Time
– By Susan Yung
Film
Elena Rossi-Snook with Frank Falisi
Jianjie Lin with Weiting Liu
Besire Paralik’s Overcoming
– By Harrison BlackmanShu Lea Cheang’s Fresh Kill
– By Ayanna Dozier
Theater
An Official New York City Fringe Festival Arrives in New York
– By Eve BrombergIn I DANCE ALL THE TIME, Together Toward the Limitless Horizons
– By Hillary GaoOn Orlando, and Sarah Ruhl’s Theatrical Transformations
– By Billy McEnteeAn Enemy of the People Plays Down Ibsen’s Anti-party Politics
– By Lily Goldberg
Fiction
A Moment of Madness
– By Hari Krishna Kaulfrom The Good Deed
– By Helen Benedict
Art Books
Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts
– By Leigh N. GallagherPaul Kooiker’s Fashion
– By Zach RitterTaysir Batniji’s Disruptions
– By Jake RommMaggie Nelson’s Like Love: Essays and Conversations
– By Jenny WuCraig Oldham’s In Loving Memory of Work: A Visual Record of the UK Miners’ Strike 1984-85
– By Andrew Holter
Special Report
Roy Lichtenstein: From The Ridiculous To The Sublime
– By Steven PollockNothing Expected
– By Sohrab Mahdavi