The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• Editor's Note

  – By Bob Holman

Art

• JUDITH BERNSTEIN with Corina Larkin

• ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV with Joyce Beckenstein

• PROMISCUOUS COMPASSION JOHN GIORNO with Jarrett Earnest

• GLENN GOLDBERG with Phong Bui

• ALEX DA CORTE with Jarrett Earnest

ArtSeen

• Letter from SINGAPORE

  – By Hearne Pardee

• In the Studio: Photographs In the Studio: Paintings

  – By David Carrier

• Peter Williams

  – By Sara Roffino

• JOANNE GRÜNE-YANOFF Between the Skin and the Prop

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• LAURA KINA Blue Hawai’i

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• HITO STEYERL

  – By Maya Harakawa

• CORDY RYMAN Chimera 45

  – By Phong Bui

• Theory Mapping in the Interregnum: LISA DAVIS, New Paintings

  – By Joan Waltemath

• EMILY MASON Recent Paintings

  – By Phong Bui

• ALFREDO JAAR Shadows

  – By Ann McCoy

• CLAIRE FONTAINE Stop Seeking Approval

  – By Liam Considine

• The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky

  – By Christopher Green

• MARSHA COTTRELL

  – By Taney Roniger

• GIUSEPPE PENONE Indistinti confini / Indistinct Boundaries

  – By Adele Tutter

• GUNTHER FORG Lead Paintings

  – By David Rhodes

• SAMARA GOLDEN The Flat Side of the Knife

  – By Kate Liebman

• MICHAEL SNOW A Group Show

  – By Chloe Wilcox

• ADAM MAGYAR: KONTINUUM

  – By Samuel Feldblum

• Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa—Art and Film

  – By Simone Krug

• Moving Image Department and Stanislav Kolíbal

  – By William Corwin

• Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence

  – By Jonathan Fineberg

• TATIANA TROUVE Desire Lines

  – By Sarah Goffstein

• HADIEH SHAFIE Surfaced

  – By Hovey Brock

• Joyce Pensato

  – By Tatiana Istomina

Critics Page

• How Kora Was Born

  – as sung by Papa Susso to Bob Holman

• SAMANTHA THORNHILL Ode to Gentrification

• ADAM FALKNER Ode to Seagull

• JON SANDS If You Were On That Train

• ELANA BELL Elegy for Nina Simone

• SYREETA MCFADDEN Untitled For Charles

• YURI MARDER Endangered Language Portraits

• Endangered Language Alliance

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• Iguanazul

• SAMUEL JABLON & STEFAN BONDELL with Bob Holman

• The State of Our Union

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• People’s State of the Union Sonnets

  – By Marilyn Nelson and Luis J. Rodriguez

• Q&A with Adam Horowitz

• NIKHIL MELNECHUK with Bob Holman

• Sono Kuwayama

• Joan Grubin

• PHONG BUI with Bob Holman

• The Hammer of Justice

  – By Bob Holman

Books

• The Glory of Grammar

  – By Sara Webster

• Unsentimental Education

  – By Keenan McCracken

• ALICE EVE COHEN with Caroline Leavitt

• This Is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry

  – By Sharon Mesmer

• Seeking Control and Connection

  – By Catherine LaSota

• MARK WISNIEWSKI with Daniel Woodrell

• The Crossdresser’s Secret

  – By Brooks Adams

• Painglorious

  – By Madeline Gressel

• Hybrid Beings

  – By Jill Dehnert

• Guilty as Charged

  – By Katharina Smundak

• The Uncertainty Principle

  – By Geoffrey Young

• Jaime Clarke in Conversation with David Bezmozgis, Maud Casey, Ramona Ausubel, Hannah Pittard, Rebecca Makkai, Charles Bock, Brock Clarke, David James Poissant, and Lydia Millet

• Secrets and Lives

  – By Marina Petrova

• In the Dark without Searchlights

  – By Maya Solovej

• Patrick Phillips in conversation with Hirsh Sawhney

  – By Hirsh Sawhney

• Game of Scribes: Chaucer and the Invention of the Maximalist Narrative

  – By J.T. Price

• RADICAL ALTERITY MIKE YOUNG with Elizabeth Trundle

• Time Ages In a Hurry: Stories

  – By John Domini

• WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CANNABIS: Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian with Amy Deneson

• Peter Pan: the Ultimate Alt-Bro

  – By Ashley P. Taylor

Music

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

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• Diary of a Mad Composer

  – By George Grella

• Recommended New and Recent Books on Music

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• Informative, Delightful, A Little Depressing

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Time Cycles

  – By George Grella

• Life of the Party Music

  – By Kevin Goins

• Artistic License

  – By Richard Klin

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• THE NAKED SKELETON Some Notes on the Danse Macabre

  – By Madison Mainwaring

• HOUSES WITHOUT MASTERS Part 1 of 2 on “Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets”

  – By Siobhan Burke

• GILLIAN WALSH: STRUCTURE PERVERT

  – By Jaime Shearn Coan

Film

• TOWARDS A TIRED CINEMA Tsai Ming-Liang’s Rebels of the Neon God

  – By Paul Felten

• THE PASSENGER: J.P. Sniadecki’s The Iron Ministry

  – By Max Goldberg

• BASIM MAGDY with Xin Zhou

• To All the Pomegranates We Lost Along the Way

  – By Yasi Alipour

• Bad City Nocturne: Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

  – By Lauren Wallach

Theater

• Digging Through Sin: Ally Collier Tunnels Down Underland

  – By Ben Gassman

• Lemon Andersen’s ToasT goes Public

  – By Susan Soon He Stanton

Fiction

• from Living Up

  – By Matt Nelson

• Transvestite

  Рby David Dumortier, translated from the French under the direction of Emmanuelle Ertel, Director of NYU̢??s M. A. in Literary Translation: French to English.

• Approach of the Word

  – by Lorand Gaspar, translated from the French by Mary Ann Caws from his book Sol Absolu forthcoming from Contramundum

• from Miransù

  – by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio

Poetry

• Three

  – By Andrew Gorin

• Seven

  – By Kevin Killian

• Mock Draft

  – By Jim Behrle

• Three

  – By Maryam Parhizkar

• Three

  – By Nada Gordon

• High as a Georgia Pine

  – By Brandon Brown

Art Books

• The Choreographic by Jenn Joy

  – By Jess Wilcox

• Invisible City and Night Walk by Ken Schles

  – By Adam Bell

Field Notes

• Editor's Note

  – By Paul Mattick

• A TALE OF TWO AGES STEVE FRASER with Gary Roth

• The Great Wheel

  – By Phil A. Neel

• On Movies, Dynasties, and Hope

  – By Jose Tapía Granados