Archive / November/December 2007

Ahmadinejad's Iran

Abbas Milani and Akbar Ganji on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; William Hogeland explores the troubling embrace of Alexander Hamilton; Colin Dyan on prisoners’ right to read. A short story by Charles Johnson; Elizabeth Willis wins the tenth annual poetry contest; criticism by Reginald Shepherd; a poem by John Updike.

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AHMADINEJAD’S IRAN

Pious Populist

Abbas Milani

Half A Man

Akbar Ganji

Variants on Binding

Stephanie Anderson

Red Glass Necklace

John Spaulding

The Whole False History of Human Beings

Arthur Voglesang

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

William Hogeland

A Skeleton I Made From Skeletons I Found

Scott Topper

Words Behind Bars

Colin Dayan

The Ghost Back Home

Fred Muratori

Left Behind

Paul Hockenos

**Tenth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest**

Susan Stewart introduces Elizabeth Willis

A Baby Is A Baby Is A Baby

Matthew Stuart

The Cynic

Charles Johnson

The Old Bills

John Updike

Something for Myself

Catalina Holguín

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Rusty Morrison

His Face in the Mirror

W. Martin

Reviewed:

Collected Poems: 1956-1998

by Zbigniew Herbert, trans. Alissa Valles. Ecco Press, 2007.

The Testament of Mr. Cogito

Alissa Valles

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Kevin Young

Enlivened Parties

Reginald Shepherd

Reviewed:

Circadian

by Joanna Klink. Penguin, 2007.

Green and Gray

by Geoffrey G. O’Brien. University of California Press, 2007.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Pioneers in the Study of Motion

by Susan Briante. Ahsahta Press, 2007.

ON FILM

Making Monsters: Paul Haggis’s In the Valley of Elah

Alan A. Stone

Poet’s Sampler

Matthew Dickman, introduced by Major Jackson

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