The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• BETTINA POUSTTCHI with Barry Schwabsky

• B. WURTZ with Sara Roffino

• JOANNE GREENBAUM with Phong Bui

• DIANE ARBUS: THE FIRST CHAPTER JEFF ROSENHEIM with Michèle Gerber Klein

ArtSeen

• MATT KLEBERG

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• MOYRA DAVEY: 7 Albums

  – By Thea Ballard

• Anna Mikhailovskaia and John Schacht

  – By Diana McClure

• Painting as Modeling

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Louisa Matthíasdóttir/Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jonsson

  – By Hovey Brock

• Joe Zucker: Armada

  – By Harrison Tenzer

• CARMEN HERRERA

  – By David Rhodes

• Marcia Hafif: The Art of Distillation The Italian Paintings, 1961 – 1969

  – By Joan Waltemath

• SHIMON ATTIE Facts on the Ground

  – By Yasi Alipour

• KATE TEALE I Am Not Empty, I Am Open

  – By Taney Roniger

• Gods and Mortals at Olympus: Ancient Dion, City of Zeus

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• MONA HATOUM

  – By William Corwin

• DAVID REED / THORNTON WILLIS

  – By David Carrier

• DAVID HAMMONS Five Decades

  – By Alexandra Fowle

• LUKAS DUWENHÖGGER Undoolay

  – By Terence Trouillot

• Future Fossil, Other Vessel

  – By ANTHONY HAWLEY

• CAROL SZYMANSKI A Distance As Close As It Can Be

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• RODNEY MCMILLIAN Views of Main Street

  – By Michelle Standley

• ADRIANA VAREJÃO Kindred Spirits

  – By Sara Christoph

• Reflections on Philip Guston PHILIP GUSTON Painter, 1957 – 1967

  – By Kate Liebman

• Reflections on Philip Guston The Generous Law: Philip Guston’s Wobble

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Reflections on Philip Guston Philip Guston: Burning the Midnight Oil

  – By Nora Griffin

• Reflections on Philip Guston Verbal Equivalents (For Philip Guston)

  – By Greg Lindquist

• RICHARD SERRA Grace Under Pressure

  – By Phong Bui

• JEAN DUBUFFET Anticultural Positions

  – By Phong Bui

Books

• Dark Atrocities: DAVID WINNER with Tyler Gore

  – By Tyler Gore

• In the Interstices and the Lacunae

  – By Katharina Smundak

• One-State Dissolution

  – By Joshua Alvarez

• Natural-Born Storytellers

  – By John Domini

• Worry and the Mordant Wallow

  – By J. C. Hallman

• POST-LUNCH POEMS JOE PAN with ANSELM BERRIGAN

• PLAYERS: JOHN MCCAFFREY with Jill Dearman

Music

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

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• The Player Piano

  – By Ryan Meehan

• THE RESIDENTS The World’s Most Mysterious Band Steps Out of the Shadows

  – By Kurt Gottschalk

• Devastating Blues, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny

  – By Dylan Angell

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• JEROBOAM BOZEMAN with Erica Getto

• Mark Morris Up Close

  – By Susan Yung

Film

• NO ESCAPING THAT Cheryl Donegan Takes the High Line

  – By Joe Bucciero

• WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT? Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits

  – By Brittany Stigler

• LAND OF LIBERTY Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side

  – By Erica Peplin

• IDEAS AS IMAGES Thom Andersen’s The Thoughts That Once We Had

  – By Joseph Pomp

Theater

• SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES Stage Designer Mimi Lien

  – By Marcina Zaccaria

• 6 Translations, 4 Acts, and 11 Vanyas New Saloon’s Minor Character

  – By Ariel Stess

• America: A Performance in Five Miltons

  – By Ben Gassman

Fiction

• Transitions to the Up-Tempo Second Section, Called Tombohoneng (“Remedy for Yearning”)

  – By Jesse Kohn

• from Games and Stunts

  – By Albert Mobilio

• Futures in Child Rearing

  – by Jen George, from her debut story collection, The Babysitter at Rest, forthcoming this October from Dorothy, a publishing project

• from Kid Coole

  – By M. G. Stephens

• Tragic Strip

  – By Tom Motley

Poetry

• A$$-ETS

  – By Georgia Faust

• Six

  – By Ann Stephenson

• Three

  – By Guillermo Filice Castro

• Two

  – By Alex Dimitrov

• Dodge-Verse-ity, New Jersey: The Festival at the Heart of the Foundations A Yelp Poem

  – by Margie Plymouth and Homar Hudson

Verbatim

• ARSHILE GORKY: Turn in the Road

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Art Books

• Nato Thompson, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century

  – By Holly Gavin

• Chris Killip

  – By Adam Bell

• JOHN E. SCOFIELD with Laila Pedro

Field Notes

• EDITOR'S NOTE The Withering of the State

  – By Paul Mattick

• THE LAST CUT WAS THE DEEPEST: Cuomo’s Gamble and CUNY’s Full-Throated Retort

  – By Samuel Feldblum

• Nuit Debout: The Longest Month

  – by Ferdinand Cazalis, with the assistance of Emilien Bernard, and a crowd of nights who will recognize themselves