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2022, Boston Review essay “Pleasure and Justice” by Becca Rothfeld is a finalist for Washington Monthly’s Kukula Award for Nonfiction Writing
2022, Boston Review essays “Why I Provide Abortions” by Christine Henneberg, “Imagine the Worst” by Oded Na’aman, and “The Millions” by Deborah Taffa are cited as Notable Essays, and the issue Uncertainty is cited as a Notable Special Issue, in The Best American Essays 2022, edited by Alexander Chee and Robert Atwan
2021, Boston Review essay “Getting to Freedom City” by Robin D. G. Kelley is cited as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2021, edited by Kathryn Schulz and Robert Atwan
2020, Boston Review issue On Anger is selected by The New Yorker as one of the best books of the year
2020, Boston Review essay “Technology Can’t Fix Algorithmic Injustice” by Annette Zimmermann, Elena Di Rosa, and Hochan Kim wins The Hasting Center’s Award for an Early Career Essay
2020, Boston Review essay “Walt Whitman’s Boys” by Jeremy Lybarger is cited as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2020, edited by André Aciman and Robert Atwan
2019, Boston Review essay “Guns in the Family” by Walter Johnson is cited as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2019, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Robert Atwan
2018, Boston Review essay “Saving Orwell” by Peter Ross is cited as a Notable Essay, and the issue Global Dystopias edited by Junot Díaz is cited as a Notable Special Issue, in The Best American Essays 2018, edited by Hilton Als and Robert Atwan
2017, Boston Review essay “Pigs” by Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey is cited as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2017, edited by Leslie Jamison and Robert Atwan
2016, Boston Review essays “The Logic of Effective Altruism” by Peter Singer, “The Lure of Luxury” by Paul Bloom, and “The Desire to Know” by Steven Shapin are cited as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen and Robert Atwan
2015, Boston Review essays “Rethinking Privacy” by William H. Simon and “Mortal Risks” by Oded Na’aman are cited as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays 2015, edited by Ariel Levy and Robert Atwan
2014, Boston Review essays “Picking Pebbles” by Deborah Stone and “On Being an Octopus” by Peter Godfrey-Smith are cited as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays 2014, edited by John Jeremiah Sullivan and Robert Atwan
2014, Boston Review essay “Who Shot Valerie Finley?” by Beth Schwartzapfel is named a runner-up for the John Jay/H. F. Guggenheim Prize for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting
2013, Boston Review essay “War Is Betrayal” by Chris Hedges is cited as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2013, edited by Cherly Strayed and Robert Atwan
2012, Boston Review essay “Apocalypse: What Disasters Reveal” by Junot Díaz is cited as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2012, edited by David Brooks and Robert Atwan
2011, Boston Review short story “Hitting Budapest” by NoViolet Bulawayo wins the Caine Prize
2010, UTNE Independent Press Award for Best Writing
2010, Boston Review essay “A Death in Texas” by Tom Barry is named a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) National Magazine Award for Public Interest
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