Essays
State of the Nation: The media and other matters
Stephen Ansolabehere
Breakout: Hamas and the end of the two-state solution
Helena Cobban
The Unending War: Argentina’s quest for justice
Sam Ferguson
American Dreamers: Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history
William Hogeland
The Bitter End: Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism
Justify the Enemy: Becoming human in South Africa
Zakes Mda
Fiction
Desaliento
The winner of Boston Review’s 15th annual fiction contest, Patricia Engel
On Film
Badlands: The Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men
Alan A. Stone
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
John W. Evans, introduced by Campbell McGrath
This Ecstatic Nation: Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11
Maureen N. McLane
Ghosts: Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract
Andrew Zawacki
The Writing Cure: Don Share’s Squandermania
Erin Belieu
Microreviews
Poems
Grace
Desirée Alvarez
Torso of an Unknown Soldier
Bridgette Bates
(Dialogue in a country graveyard)
Matvei Yankelevich
centerfold
D.A. Powell
When the Moon Comes Up
Barbara Claire Freeman
Hover, Coo
Frances Justine Post
The World
Marie Howe
Why the Novel Is Necessary but Sometimes Hard to Read
Marie Howe
Principles of Uncertainty
Cynthia Lowen