Photo: Meg Boudreau
800,000 Reasons Democrats Should Worry
It wasn’t just about turnout. Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts ought to be a wakeup call for Democrats, who saw a real erosion in support.
Stephen Ansolabehere and
Charles Stewart III
The Rules
A forum on Government’s proper role in the market with Eliot Spitzer. Responses from Dean Baker; Robert Johnson; and Sarah Binder, Andrew Gelman, and John Sides. Eliot Spitzer responds.
Debating What Darwin Got Wrong
A Web-only exchange between Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Ned Block and Philip Kitcher, based on their review of the controversial book.
essays
Are You Being Served?
How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom
Richard M. Stallman—Web only
The Obligation to Prosecute
Why we must prosecute the Bush administration officials who sanctioned torture.
Elaine Scarry—Web only
Obama’s Chicago Tactics
Why top-down governing isn’t working in Washington.
Michael Gecan—Web only
Nothing To Fear
Why Muslim immigration in Europe is no “clash of civilizations.”
John R. Bowen
All Bark, No Bite
Have Europe’s social democrats outlived their ideological usefulness?
Clay Risen
Counterinsurgency’s Comeback
Can a colonialist strategy be reinvented?
Nasser Hussain
Sidney Mintz and Colin Dayan
on Haitian history and the current crisis—Web only
The Big Bank Theory
How government helps financial giants get richer
Dean Baker
State of the Nation: the State of Boston
A mayoral election special
Stephen Ansolabehere
The Lost Radical
Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul
Vivian Gornick
Biography and the Bench
Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Ryan Thoreson
Edit This Page
Wikipedia: what makes it work—and can it last?
Evgeny Morozov
Listen to Morozov on NPR’s Here & Now
Statement of Support for Iranian Universities (PDF)
fiction
Seven Little Stories About Sex—story
Eric Freeze
Wednesday Nights—memoir
Memories of “Tickle or Torture”
Vestal McIntyre
Everything is Breakable with a Big Enough Stone—story
Taryn Bowe
Fine By Me
Geoff Dyer’s unlikely terms of engagement
James Wallenstein
Last Wishes
Nabokov’s last request was the destruction, by fire, of the notes for the newly-published The Original of Laura.
Leland de la Durantaye
Hear the author on NPR’s On Point.
Sites of interest: Personal Loans
News
Boston Review has been nominated for a 2010 Utne Indpenedent Press Award for best writing. This comes on the heels of our National Magazine Award nomination, and three Pushcart Prize nominations for our authors. We’re eagerly awaiting the results, so wish us luck!
poetry
Poems
Scenes of Negotiation
Adrienne Rich
Ax the al— to
Stacy Kidd
Microreviews
Lord, Hear My Voice
Bin Ramke’s Theory of Mind
Craig Morgan Teicher
Smothered to Smithereens
The poetics of motherhood
Stephen Burt
Congratulations to the winners of the Unterberg Poetry Center’s 2010 “Discovery” / Boston Review contest:
Chelsea Jennings, Brandon Kreitler, Tanya Olson, and Camille Rankine (no relation to judge Claudia Rankine).
The winners will read their work May 10 at the 92nd St. Y in New York. The winning poems will appear online and in our May/June issue.
More Poetry & Poetry Criticism
2004: A Mostly Irish Farce
For St. Patrick’s Day, Roger Boylan presents his tribute to Ireland and its masters of the ridiculous.
1998: Is Equality Passé?
The Jewish Question
The Coen brothers’ A Serious Man
Alan A. Stone
Forums
Something from Nothing
A forum on strategy in Afghanistan with Nir Rosen, Helena Cobban, Andrew Exum, Andrew J. Bacevich, and others. Web-only responses by Rajan Menon and Richard W. Miller.
Investigative Special
A Death in Texas
Profits, poverty, and immigration converge
Tom Barry
Hear Tom Barry discuss the private prison boom in an Utne Reader podcast, or see him in a recent episode of Dan Rather Reports.
God, the Army, and PTSD
Is religion an obstacle to treatment?
Tara McKelvey
An Ugly Peace
What changed in Iraq
Nir Rosen
poetry
Poems
Scenes of Negotiation
Adrienne Rich
Ax the al— to
Stacy Kidd
Lord, Hear My Voice
Bin Ramke’s Theory of Mind
Craig Morgan Teicher
Microreviews
Congratulations to the winners of the Unterberg Poetry Center’s 2010 “Discovery” / Boston Review contest:
Chelsea Jennings, Brandon Kreitler, Tanya Olson, and Camille Rankine (no relation to judge Claudia Rankine).
The winners will read their work May 10 at the 92nd St. Y in New York. The winning poems will appear online and in our May/June issue.
Smothered to Smithereens
The poetics of motherhood
Stephen Burt
BR Footnote:
Boston Review’s intern blog
A Cause for Celebration at Boston Review! (03/10/10)
Putting Out Fires, Starting New Ones (03/3/10)
In Lebanon, history on repeat (02/24/10)
Culture-the missing piece of effective Counterinsurgency Policy (01/26/10)
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