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Many revere Latin as the soul of Western civilization. But its beauty should not keep us from reckoning with its history.
Joel Christensen
When conservatives declare the death of the English major, they highlight the need for the critical thinking skills that English departments excel at teaching.
Jonathan Beecher Field
A timely new documentary celebrates Morrison’s novels, but downplays the enduring power of her work as an editor and essayist.
Joy James
Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the story for the Academy Award–winning film Arrival. Now his new collection of short stories gives us further glimpses of possible futures.
John Crowley
A radical revisioning of our creative writing programs.
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Poets, philosophers, playwrights.
Rosie Gillies
From the bisexual demimonde of prewar Paris to investigating Soviet war crimes, Józef Czapski’s life encapsulates the extremes of twentieth-century Europe.
Marta Figlerowicz
The cult artist and author proves an evasive subject for biography, a fact that would surely have delighted him.
Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.
Mark Bould
Man Booker nominees and more got their start at Boston Review.
Rosie Gillies, Boston Review
A new anthology is dedicated to the scholar who saw nostalgia as a radical rebellion against modern ideas of time.
Neel Mukherjee is part of a new generation of Indian writers dissecting postcolonialism’s failed promise of a classless society.
Gaiutra Bahadur
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