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May/June 2007

Akbar Ganji on changing Iran from within; Hans Blix on global arms control; a look at religion in politics by Catherine Tumber; Nicholas Schmidle on Islamism in Bangladesh.

Fiction contest winner Pama Viswanathan; Katie Peterson on Tomas Tranströmer.

Nukes, Democracy, and Iran

Essays

The Reckoning

The proper place for religion in politics
Catherine Tumber

In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American liberalism
Lew Daly

Revolution

The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh
Nicholas Schmidle

Metamorphosis

Rosamond Purcell’s natural history

John Crowley

Fiction

Transitory Cities

The winner of Boston Review‘s 14th annual fiction contest

Padma Viswanathan

On Film

Living Together

Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing

Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Joshua Clover

Kevin Davies

Gravity and Fire

Peter Gizzi’s The Outernationale

John Palattella

Oracle

Carol Frost’s The Queen’s Desertion

Garth Greenwell

Acts of Mind

Tomas Tranströmer’s The Great Engima

Katie Peterson

Microreviews

Poems

The Attorney Updates His Architect Spouse After Finding Premises for a Transcending Facility

Andrew Seguin

Of Progress and Implied Mission

Karla Kelsey

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