Nukes, Democracy, and Iran
The View from Tehran
Akbar Ganji
Nuclear Freeze
Hans Blix
Carrots and Sticks
R. Nicholas Burns
A Third Way
Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani
Essays
The Reckoning
The proper place for religion in politics
Catherine Tumber
In Search of the Common Good
The Catholic roots of American liberalism
Lew Daly
Revolution
The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh
Nicholas Schmidle
Metamorphosis
Rosamond Purcell’s natural history
John Crowley
Fiction
Transitory Cities
The winner of Boston Review‘s 14th annual fiction contest
Padma Viswanathan
On Film
Living Together
Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing
Alan A. Stone
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Introduced by Joshua Clover
Kevin Davies
Gravity and Fire
Peter Gizzi’s The Outernationale
John Palattella
Microreviews
Poems
from Liner Notes
Andrew Mister
The Attorney Updates His Architect Spouse After Finding Premises for a Transcending Facility
Andrew Seguin
Boom Kiss Boom Boom Kiss
David Lau
A Name for This Bird
Nicholas Laughlin
Dreams Like a Bird
Nicholas Laughlin
Lookouts and Spies
Deborah Anne Roth
Sorry, T.
Brenda Shaughnessy
The Terrier
Jean Esteve
Of Progress and Implied Mission
Karla Kelsey