Repair—A Virtual Celebration of Literature

Boston Review hosted a virtual reading to celebrate the release of our annual arts anthology.

Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine

Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.

The Marriage of Granite and Rainbow: A Biography of Robert Duncan

Lisa Jarnot offers a glimpse into the academic and artistic communities of Robert Duncan.

Revelation

Readers of Barbara Guest should receive the publication of her Collected Poems with joy and relief.

This book can’t be sung

(Reading Walden)

The very air

(Faith Reason)

Whole New World

On Alice Notley.

Microreview: Arthur Sze, Quipu

Poems that capture the world’s manifold facts one by one.

Microreview: Thylias Moss, Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse

Microreview: C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

from “[ Adam ]in fragments/with a poem engraved/down the thighs”

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