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November/December 2014

25 Years After the Wall Fell

Paul Hockenos on a group of young anarchists in East Berlin. Plus: Henry Farrell on Ireland’s Cold War; Mike Konczal on public goods, profits, and state legitimacy; Vivian Gornick on the state of contemporary feminism, and more.

 

Paul Hockenos on a group of young anarchists in East Berlin. Plus: Henry Farrell on Ireland’s Cold War; Mike Konczal on public goods, profits, and state legitimacy; Vivian Gornick on the state of contemporary feminism; Stephen Phelan after Scotland’s Independence Referendum. 
 
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
 
 
Paul Hockenos
 
Ireland’s Cold War
Henry Farrell
 
Brazil’s Era of Possibility
Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Foundations

State of the Nation: Big Spenders
Andrew Mayersohn
 
Made in America: Slumming It
Claude S. Fischer
 
Mike Konczal
 
The Russians Came!
Val Vinokur

 

On Poetry

Seventeenth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest
francine j. harris selected by Major Jackson
Poems About Poems
Stephen Burt
 
The Flame in the Grate: Uche Nduka’s Surrealism
Joyelle McSweeney
 
Poet’s Sampler
Blair Johnson introduced by Monica de la Torré
 
Microreviews
New books by Jena Osman, Aaron Belz, Jane Miller, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Danniel Schoonebeek

 

On Film

Alan A. Stone

 

Poems

Spill
Beth Bachmann
 
Archaeology: Toolbox with Level
Cara Chamberlain
 
Survival Italian
Chad Davidson
 
Two Poems: Portrait of a Hanged Woman and Lamentation of a Hanged Man
Monica Youn
 
Goodbye to All That, the Birds Included
Adam Clay
 
Urban Fantasy
Denise Duhamel
 
Letters
David Sanders
 
 
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