The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

• Why Luciano Fabro Today?

  – By Sharon Hecker

Publisher's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• LIZA LOU with Charlie Schultz

• ELLEN BERKENBLIT with Alex A. Jones

• MARY WEATHERFORD with Terry R. Myers

• DIANA THATER with Steven Pestana

• Gray Foy: Known and Unknown

  – By Robert Pincus-Witten

ArtSeen

• To the Pit of Things: On Patrick Nagatani and Mentorship

  – By Colin Edgington

• Rackstraw Downes: Paintings & Drawings

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• Diana Thater

  – By Emily Watlington

• The Racial Imaginary Institute: On Whiteness

  – By Nico Wheadon

• The Otolith Group: A Lost Future

  – By Swagato Chakravorty

• The First Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA): Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

  – By Joyce Beckenstein

• Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl: War Games

  – By Lisa E. Bloom

• Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams

  – By Maddie Klett

• Yaara Zach: Unreasonable Doubt

  – By Naomi Lev

• Chaim Soutine: Flesh

  – By Alfred Mac Adam

• The Thomas Cole House, Olana, and Lyndhurst

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros

  – By Steven Pestana

• Analia Segal: Contra la pared

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Vincent Fecteau

  – By Alex Jen

• Patrick Staff: hatefull to the stomach, harmefull to the braine

  – By Nick Herman

• Please Touch: Body Boundaries

  – By Yasi Alipour

• Tony Oursler: TC: the most interesting man alive

  – By Ida Pruitt

• Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s

  – By Phong Bui

• Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Summer of David

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• David Wojnarowicz

  – By Jan Avgikos

• David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night

  – By Danilo Machado

• The Water Lilies: American Abstract Painting and the Last* Monet

  – By Norman L Kleeblatt

• Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism

  – By Anthony Hawley

• Richanda Rhoden

  – By Hadley Suter

• Seed

  – By Michela Moscufo

• Jonas Mekas: Notes from Downtown

  – By Mark Bloch

• 13th Forum Expanded Exhibition: A Mechanism Capable of Changing Itself

  – By Anthony Hawley

1x1

• Introducing 1 by 1

  – By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

• For Bill Berkson

  – By Andrei Codrescu

• Richard Serra: Tilted Arc

  – By Nicole Miller

Critics Page

• Robert Morris

• Paolo Canevari

• Re: Moving Pictures

  – By Neil Powell

• Fabro: Why Now

  – By Nancy Olnick

• Luciano Fabro with Martin Schwander

• Luciano Fabro: Timely and Defiant

  – By Margit Rowell

• Every Order is Contemporaneous of Every Other Order

  – By Mami Kataoka

• Lawrence Weiner

• Technique as Alibi

  – By Jessica Morgan

• Luciano Fabro: In Virtue of References

  – By Frances Morris

Books

• Karl Ove Knausgaard's Summer

  – By Robert Blaisdell

• Laura Esther Wolfson's For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors

  – By Lily Majteles

• Tommy Orange's There There

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

• William T. Vollmann’s Carbon Ideologies

  – By Jacob Singer

• Porochista Khakpour's Sick

  – By Deena ElGenaidi

• Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body

  – By John Domini

• Donna Masini’s 4:30 Movie

  – By Tony Leuzzi

• NEW WORLD POSTCOLONIAL: JAMES W. FUERST with Juan E. De Castro

• Maggie Nelson's Something Bright, Then Holes

  – By Elizabeth Block

• BLAIR HURLEY with Olivia Kate Cerrone

• STEVE ALMOND with Curt Smith

• TIMOTHY LIU with Tony Leuzzi

• The Delicious Unease of A Lesser Day

  – By Aimee Parkinson

• DALE PECK with Christine Sang

• Alistair McCartney's The Disintegrations

  – By Tim Horvath

• Assimilation as Disappearing Act: José Olivarez's Citizen Illegal

  – By Chris Campanioni

• Susan Shapiro’s The Byline Bible

  – By Matt Grant

• Welcome to Lagos

  – By Yvonne C. Garrett

Music

• Punkt Festival

  – By Martin Longley

• DANIEL LOPATIN with George Grella

• Nick Soulsby's Swans: Sacrifice And Transcendence, The Oral History

  – By Dan Joseph

• Zeal & Ardor’s Visionary Diptych

  – By John Amen

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• September Listings

  – By Brad Cohan

Dance

• INSITU: dance in its first position

  – By Jen George

• Misfiring synapses: a conversation with Gabri Christa about her stage comeback with Magdalena

  – By Ivan Talijancic

• Mark Morris’s Ascension in a Shrinking Summer Dancescape at Lincoln Center

  – By Susan Yung

• Four Continents and Five Boroughs on the Harbor

  – By Gillian Jakab

Film

• RaMell Ross’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening

  – By Steve Macfarlane

• HANNAH GREENBERG with Gina Telaroli

• Il Cinema Ritrovato 2018: The Timeliness of the Past

  – By Celluloid Liberation Front

• The Neurotic Gothic Deviated Sex-Colored World: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood

  – By Leo Goldsmith

Theater

• Theater in the Wild: The Motor Company at Large in NYC

  – By Jen Gushue

• Poking Holes in Performance Publishing: Brooklyn-based 3 Hole Press

  – By Erik Freer

• Gathering Round The Hearth: New Theater, Strong Women, and Fiery Plays

  – By Billy McEntee

Fiction

• From Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return

  – By Martin Riker

• Narrating Forgetting

  – By Hilary Plum

• inSerial: part one The Mysteries of Paris

  – by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bonnono

• New Routes in Fiction: KEITH GESSEN with Alec Niedenthal 

• Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #7: Vaudeville

  – By Tom Motley

• Golthar, Terror of the Deep

  – By Nathan Place

Poetry

• five

  – By Ron Padgett and Yu Jian

• from Trying

  – By Jackie Clark

• five

  – By Uche Nduka

• three

  – By Charles North

• MERCEDES ROFFÉ with Anna Deeny Morales

Verbatim

• Sean Scully: Illuminated Manuscripts

  – By Jessica Holmes

Art Books

• Maura Reilly's Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating

  – By Gretchen Coombs

• Isabelle Graw's The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium

  – By Lauren Palmer

• Luigi Ghirri's The Map and The Territory

  – By Sarah Heather Brown

• SONEL BRESLAV with Megan N. Liberty

In Memoriam

• A Tribute to Malcolm Morley

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Field Notes

• Letter from San Antonio

  – By Marisela Barrera

• Quotation, Paraphrase, and Plagiarism: An Exchange

  – By Pavlos Roufos and Libcom

• Little Caughnawaga

  – By Isabel Lockhart

• Degrowth Considered

  – By Max Ajl