Forum
Mothers Who Care Too Much
Nancy J. Hirschmann — with responses from:
SHANNON HAYES, ROBIN WEST, LISA DODSON, MELODY BERGER, ANN FRIEDMAN, MONA HARRINGTON, LANE KENWORTHY, AND ANNE L. ALSTOTT.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
State of the Nation: Early and often
Stephen Ansolabehere and Eitan Hersh
Dispatch: The War for Drugs: How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city
Sarah Hill
Books & Ideas
Sharing Liberally: Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus
Evgeny Morozov
Clear and Hold: Roberta Brandes Gratz’s The Battle for Gotham
Casey Walker
Mind the Gap: Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s The Spirit Level
Claude S. Fischer
Fiction
How Do I Explain? — The winner of Boston Review’s 17th annual fiction contest
Adam Sturtevant
Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
Samuel R. Delany
The Gentleman Thief
Goli Taraghi, translated by Faridown Farrokh
On Film
Curtain Call: Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere
Alan A. Stone
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Arlo Quint, introduced by Anselm Berrigan
Poetry Hot and Cold: Myung Mi Kim’s Penury and Leland Hickman’s Tiresias
Calvin Bedient
Before History: Harry Clifton’s Secular Eden
Alissa Valles
Without End: Ann Lauterbach’s Or To Begin Again
Richard Deming
Microreviews
Poems
Zero Hour
Kristine Ong Muslim
In The Golden Age of Counterfeiting
Christopher Salerno
Love Poem
Sophie Cabot Black
In The End There Were Thousands of Cowboys
Mary Austin Speaker
What If There Is a Person
Steve Healey
False Documents
Nicole Walker
Psyche
Gustaf Sobin
Everlasting Life
John Deming
Particular Flight
John Deming
Anniversary
Joseph P. Wood
Warhol / Blue Jackie
Peter Balakian