Deborah Chasman
Deborah Chasman is publisher and coeditor of Boston Review. Her writing has also appeared in New York magazine and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
Letter from the Editors: Our 50th Anniversary
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“The Crimes Are Plenty”
A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.
From the Editors: On Solidarity
Introducing our summer 2023 issue: What does solidarity mean, and how can movements build enough of it to change the world?
“Fascism never disappears because people come to their senses.”
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley.
From the Editors: The Politics of Pleasure
What if “post-growth living” could be an opportunity for greater pleasure, not less?
From the Editors: Rethinking Law
In a deeply unequal society, the law can certainly impede progress, but it also remains an essential resource in building a more just world.
From the Editors: Redesigning AI
Our new book offers a deeper understanding of the current challenges of AI and a rich, constructive, morally urgent vision for redirecting its course.
From the Editors: On Anger
Our new issue explores anger in its many forms—public and private, personal and political—raising an issue that we must grapple with: Does the vast well of public anger compromise us all?
Speaking the Truth
Cornel West and Deborah Chasman discuss the disproportionately white publishing world, the responsibilities and burdens of public life, and the predicament of black intellectuals today.
From the Editors: Racist Logic
By examining the opioid crisis alongside the War on Drugs Murch brings an otherwise familiar story into new territory.
From the Editors: Left Elsewhere
Left Elsewhere puts rural progressives in conversation with their urban cousins.
Selling Outrage
Yochai Benkler argues that the mainstream media is our best hope for tempering the radical right.
Errol Morris on Steve Bannon’s Dangerous “Dharma”
Morris on his new film—and what’s at stake in trying to understand its subject.
