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The Rail's Person of the Year, 2005
In 1927, four years after its founding, Time Magazine launched its seminal
"Man of the Year" award. In 2005, five years after its founding, The Brooklyn Rail is launching its own equally seminal "Person of the Year" award. We're a year late, but in my view right on Time. Next year, though not this one, the honoree may even grace our cover.
Over the years. Time has honored various people of prominence, both deserved and dubious. The awards sometimes signified that the figures were the "newsmaker" of the year, and at other times, signified that they were friends of Time founder and publisher Henry Luce. The 30s, for example, saw tremendous range: Gandhi, FDR, Haile Selassie, Wallis Warfield Simpson (a.k.a. the Duchess of Windsor), Madame and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Hitler, and Stalin. If you want to know more about Luce's friends and enemies, read the great biographer W.A. Swanberg's Luce and His Empire. For now, read on.
The Brooklyn Rail hereby makes Congressman John (or Jack) Murtha its inaugural "Person of the Year." His courageous, altogether unexpected call for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq has suddenly, and finally, created real debate over how to end the Iraq war. Murtha, a venerable hawk, has opened the coop for the doves. Marines are always at the front lines of battle. Whatever happens regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2006 will owe much to the position that Jack Murtha took at the end of 2005. For this we salute him, and I have a sneaking suspicion that in this sentiment, we're not alone.
Peace on earth.
—T. Hamm
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TABLE OF CONTENT
LOCAL
Family Feud: Will the real Satmar please stand up? by Jenny Clevstrom
A Benediction by Eleanor J. Bader
A Dividing Wall by Megha Bahree
Rich Man, Poor Man: A History of Fort Greene by Carl Hancock Rux
EXPRESS
Impossible Dreams by Stephen Duncombe
Putting NYC Writers into Stone by Williams Cole
Bonfire of the French Vanities by Francois Cusset
Xmas at the Q by JT Gottlieb
Reading Osama by Mridu Chandra
In Conversation: Eugene Jarecki with with Williams Cole
In Conversation: Katrina Vanden Heuvel with Theodore Hamm
A Riposte to Retort by Paul Mattick
In Texas a Model of Criminal Justice (Honest) by Gabriel Thompson
Country and the City by Steve Strunsky
ART
In Conversation: Dore Ashton with Phong Bui & Deidre Swords
The Painted World by Roger White
In Conversation: Stephen Shore with Noah Sheldon & Roger White
Hwang Young Sung: Painter from GwangJu by Robert C. Morgan
Performa 05 by Ellen Pearlman 35
A Tribute to Philip Pavia (1912-2005) by Phong Bui
In Conversation: Pierre Soulages with Robert C. Morgan
ARTSEEN
John Graham |
Nils Karsten |
Three Generations of Abstract Painting |
If Its Too Bad To Be True |
Aron Namenwirth and Jason Van Anden |
Nancy Spero |
Shirin Neshat |
Mediating the void Gabriel Orozco |
The Long Ride of Larry Poons |
Richard Pousette-Dart |
Egon Schiele |
Judy Simonian |
Bob Thompson |
Luc Tuymans |
Daniel Zeller |
BOOKS
Adding Up by Win Clevenger
In Conversation: Melissa Rossi with K.M. Ferebee
The Songs Are My Lexicon by Nora Griffin
Fiction: Rock & Roll Diary by Arthur Vaughan
Art: We Are All Connected by Rachel Syme
Investigative Reporting: Squatter Nation by Ellen Pearlman
New York Stories: Acquainted With the Night by Alex Nazaryan
MUSIC
Weird War: In the Belly of the Beat by Todd Simmons
Untouchable Is Something to Be: by Justin Taylor
The Double: Loose in the Area by Fred Cisterna
DANCE
Searching for Virgin Territory by Claudia La Rocco
Dancing on the Rail by Vanessa Manko
THEATER
Bloodlust at Red Bull: The Revenger's Tragedy by Wendy Weisman
In Dialogue: Jorge Ignacio Cortias by Kristoffer Diaz
In Conversation: Two Headed Calf with Roger Babb
Review: Out of the darkness by Richard Fulco
FILM
Classy Class War, Debonair Existentialism: by Sarahjane Blum
Empty Metal Jacket by Patrick Levell
Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, The Blues by David N. Myer
Doc in Sight: The Next Way to Watch? by Williams Cole
The Wild, Wild East by David Varno
STREETS
I Want to Re-Home Your Pet by Marjory Garrison
What's For Dinner by Marjory Garrison
FICTION
THE SAL MINEO PRESERVATION SOCIETY by Albert Mobilio
According to YJ by Eugene Lim
Frank by R. M. Berry
Instructions for Sebastian by Angela Fajardo
SPORTS
Why I love The Pittsburgh Steelers by Jason Flores-Williams
My Begrudging Admiration for the Indianapolis Colts by Theodore Hamm
LAST WORDS
An Immaterial Message by Andrew Farkas
POETRY
Leonard Schwartz
Anne Waldman
John Ashbery
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