SEPT 2009 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

Memories of a Not-So Distant Past
– By Theodore Hamm

Local

A Check and a Balance? JOHN LIU with Theodore Hamm
Brooklyn Supports a Public Option, and Beyond
– By Eleanor J. Bader
The Latino Crescent: Latinos make a place for themselves in Muslim America
– By Lyndsey Matthews
CHARLOTTE DUMAS with Alessandro Cassin

Express

The Alchemy of Identities
– By Abdullah Khan
Partition Woes: SARAH SINGH with Williams Cole
The Strangers’ Book
– By Christopher G. Moore
Something About Writing Like Pinter Or George W. Bush
– By Joseph Riippi
The World is Still Round
– By Nisa Qazi
Go East, Young Man
– By Dylan Byers
Expanding the Circle
– By James Arnett
A Modernist Temperament
– By Michael Sandlin
To Do is to Be
– By Christopher Michel
A Tribute to Ilse Mattick (1919–2009)
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A Reply to Nasinine T.
– By Dore Ashton

Art

ArtSeen

The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women
– By Cora Fisher
Dorothy Iannone
– By Kara L. Rooney
Unconsciousness Raising
– By Anne Pundyk
TRACKS: The Quay Brothers and the Argument for the Real
– By Thomas Micchelli
The Importance of Being Unimportant
– By Shane McAdams
Sanford Wurmfeld E-Cyclorama—Immersed in Color
– By John Yau
Larry Johnson
– By Terry R. Myers
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: The Lies We Tell Children
– By James Kalm
Another World: The Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit
– By Sharon L. Butler
2009 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale
– By Robert C. Morgan
HELMUT FEDERLE: Acceptance Speech Prix Aurélie-Nemours, 2008
– By Helmut Federle
Looking In: Robert Frank's THE AMERICANS
– By Tessa DeCarlo
LONGTIME EXPOSURE: Considering Street Art Photography
– By Hrag Vartanian
Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu: Life on the Block
– By Valery Oisteanu
Letter From LONDON
– By Sherman Sam
Letter From BEIJING
– By Ellen Pearlman
Letter From BERLIN
– By David Rhodes
Your Gold Teeth II
– By Becky Brown
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
– By Stephanie Buhmann
Structured Simplicity
– By Ben Tripp

Books

BINNIE KIRSHENBAUM with Anis Shivani
MARK MILLHONE with Anne Pelletier
NONFICTION: Community Centering
– By Brian Sholis
ART: The Agonist and the Ecstasy
– By Chris Winks
FICTION: Waiting for Bolongo
– By Joseph Salvatore
POETRY: After the Road
– By John Yau
FICTION: A Liberating Trap
– By Roger Van Voorhees
TOKENS
– By Ray Abernathy, Raina Lipsitz, and Sarah Normandie
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Music

Roy Nathanson: THE GUY TO LOOK AT ON THE SUBWAY
– By Kurt Gottschalk
VALUE ADDED
– By Brandon Kreitler
MICHAEL DAVES: Renegade Traditionalist
– By Spencer Woodman
FARSI POETRY + CHAMBER JAZZ = CYMINOLOGY
– By Alessandro Cassin
THIS WAS POP
– By George Grella

Dance

Ballets Russes Centennial
– By L.J. Sunshine
City Parks Foundation's Central Park Summerstage: NATHANTRICE/RITUALS DANCE THEATER AND DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY (DCDC)
– By Dalia Ratnikas
LIGHTLY NOW: Gabrielle Lansner Dances Summer at Sitelines
– By April Greene
Dana Salisbury's UNSEEN DANCES
– By Michelle Vellucci
MERCE CUNNINGHAM (1919–2009)
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REMEMBERING MERCE
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The Brooklyn Rail Remembers PINA BAUSCH
– By Mary Love Hodges
SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI with Susan Yung
– By Susan Yung

Film

Fun With Adolf, Uplift With Spike
– By David N. Meyer
It’s People. District 9 is People!
– By Sarahjane Blum
Joy of Cooking
– By Tessa DeCarlo
Ground Control to Major Sam
– By Mary Hanlon
10% True, 90% Lies: SION SONO with David Wilentz
– By David Wilentz
A Mountain Where Less is More
– By Malcolm Wyer

Theater

THOMAS BRADSHAW—OPEN WIDE
– By Lisa D'Amour

Fiction

Excerpt from Still Life with Razor
– By Tom Helleberg
Mad Love
– By Luc Lang
RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
– By Jonathan Baumbach
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Twin Towers
– By Ian Monk
Shitty Mickey
– By John Reed and Michele Witchipoo
Rendezvous from Cruels, 13, short stories
– By Luc Lang
The Pinball King
– By Ersi Sotiropoulos
Grand Days: The Worst Book I Ever Wrote
– By Ron Kolm

Poetry

FOUR POEMS
– By Greg Purcell
from CONDENSATION
– By Matthew Rohrer

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