The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Speaking of Iraq…

  – By Theodore Hamm

Local

• Fingers for Fighting

  – By Ray Huling

• Tony Avella with Theodore Hamm

• Home is Where the Work Is, Domestic Workers Unite

  – By Eleanor J. Bader

• Along for the Ride

  – By Brian Childs

• As the Neighborhood Grows, Will Schools Adapt?

  – By Williams Cole

• Erasing the Kung-Fu Judge

  – By Christopher Ketcham

• Outer Borough

  – By Matthew Wills

Express

• Bring on the Iraq Syndrome

  – By Theodore Hamm

• Dark Hopes for Peace in the O.T.

  – By Gabriel Thompson

• Letter from Bad Heiligendamm

  – By Robert S. Eshelman and Tina Gerhardt

• Kenneth Foster and the Texas Death House

  – By Liliana Segura

• Rant Rhapsody: On Duty with Officer H.

  – By Sabine Heinlein

• Excerpt from Lincoln Ocean Victory Eddy

  – By Jill Magid

Art

• Richard Serra

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• Biennale de Venezia: Opening Remarks

  – By Robert Storr

• Robert Storr with Irving Sandler

• “Sculpture is a very rich dialogue…” Carmen Giménez with Michael Brenson

• Death in Venice

  – By Kim Levin

• One Venice After Another: The Present Tense of the Future-Past at the 52nd Biennale

  – By Jennifer Scappettone

• Think with the Senses–Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense

  – By Thomas Micchelli

• Lee Ufan Resonance & Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art

  – By Robert C. Morgan

• Rosalyn Drexler with John Yau

• William Anastasi with Phong Bui

ArtSeen

• Ready Mades at Urban Outfitters

  – By Cassandra Neyenesch

• Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids Frogs: A Chorus of Colors

  – By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

• LuminaTO Arts Festival: Cultural Makeover for New York's Northern Counterpart

  – By David Markus

• Richard Tuttle Memory Comes from Dark Extension

  – By Jeremy Sigler

• Liz Brown Most Triumphant

  – By James Kalm

• Marilyn Bridges In the Footsteps of Alexander

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Letter from London

  – By Sherman Sam

• Brooklyn Dispatches

  – By James Kalm

• Art 38 Basel and Beyond

  – By Shane McAdams

• Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) 1985–1995

  – By Craig Olson

• Don Van Vliet

  – By John Yau

• Stuart Arends Wedges and A-Squares

  – By John Yau

• From Berlin to Broadway: The Ebb Bequest of Modern German and Austrian Drawings

  – By Stephanie Buhmann

• Realicide

  – By Warren Fry

Books

• Poetry: Mister I Think

  – By James O'Connor

• Fiction: Clap Trap

  – By Alexander Zaitchik

• Nonfiction: The Poetics of Sociability

  – By Ben Tripp

• Fiction: Honeymoon Humiliation

  – By John G. Rodwan Jr.

• Nonfiction: East of Classic

  – By Naomi Karavani

• Nonfiction: The Taxonomy of Melancholy

  – By Ben Gore

• Fiction: Lyrics of the Past

  – By Jim Feast

• Poetry Roundup

  – By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

• Scenes from the End of the World

  – By Laura Stokes

• Jon Savage with Karen Rester

• To Live in a Culture

  – By Nora Griffin

Music

• A Few Good White Men

  – By Dann Baker

• Diamanda Galás with Sergei Tcherepnin

• free 103point9: Ten Years of Transmission Arts

  – By John S.W. MacDonald

• The New New York Songstress

  – By Katy Henriksen

• Third Party Beethoven

  – By Cleve Wiese

Dance

• The Real Tomato

  – By Susan Yung

• Neta Pulvermacher’s Afterlife Trilogy

  – By Carley Petesch

• Alexandra Beller’s us

  – By Carley Petesch

Film

• Japan Cuts

  – By David Wilentz and David N. Meyer

• Nothing At All

  – By Jenny Schlenzka

• Which One Betrays?

  – By Jesi Khadivi

• Try to Make Me Go to Rehab

  – By Tessa DeCarlo

• The Old Insincerity

  – By Sarahjane Blum

• The Land Of Fatherless Boys

  – By Karl O'Toole

• Freedom, Misery, Tenure

  – By Jed Lipinski

• The Horror Of Bollywood

  – By Brother Cleve

Theater

• Code Word Reform: Taking another look at the Actors’ Equity Showcase Code

  – By Emily DeVoti

• Reclamation and Resistance

  – By Rania Jawad

• Code Word Reform

  – By Emily DeVoti

• It Feels Damn Good To Speed

  – By Kristoffer Diaz

• Excerpts from other work by Janet Allard

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Fiction

• The Accidental Oracle

  – By Kurt Strahm

• THE STORY OF WOODCHUCK

  – By Ted Pelton

• The Convict’s Tale: A Sydney Chronicle Exclusive

  – By Michael Washburn

Poetry

• Truth Be Told

  – By Charles Bernstein and Charles Bernstein

• from luce a cavallo

  – By Thérèse Bachand

LastWords

• A TRIBUTE TO SABRINA SEELIG (1984–2007)

  – By Phong Bui, David Varno, Nora Griffin, and Erin Durant