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November/December 2014

25 Years After the Wall Fell

Paul Hockenos on a group of young anarchists in East Berlin. Plus: Henry Farrell on Ireland’s Cold War; Mike Konczal on public goods, profits, and state legitimacy; Vivian Gornick on the state of contemporary feminism, and more.

Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

Zero Hour: The First Days of New Berlin

Paul Hockenos

Ireland’s Cold War

Henry Farrell

Brazil’s Era of Possibility

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Foundations

State of the Nation: Big Spenders

Andrew Mayersohn

Dispatch: Scotland’s Next Move

Stephen Phelan

Made in America: Slumming It

Claude S. Fischer

Wonders: Democratic Science

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Fiction

What Happened to the Bird People

Monique Wentzel

Books & Ideas

Good Feminist: Three new books on feminism

Vivian Gornick

Selling Fast: Public Goods, Profits, and State Legitimacy

Mike Konczal

The Russians Came!

Val Vinokur

On Poetry

Seventeenth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest

francine j. harris selected by Major Jackson

Poems About Poems

Stephen Burt

The Flame in the Grate: Uche Nduka’s Surrealism

Joyelle McSweeney

Poet’s Sampler

Blair Johnson introduced by Monica de la Torré

Microreviews

New books by Jena Osman, Aaron Belz, Jane Miller, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Danniel Schoonebeek

On Film

The Natural: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood

Alan A. Stone

Poems

Spill

Beth Bachmann

Archaeology: Toolbox with Level

Cara Chamberlain

Survival Italian

Chad Davidson

Two Poems: Portrait of a Hanged Woman and Lamentation of a Hanged Man

Monica Youn

Goodbye to All That, the Birds Included

Adam Clay

Growing Up: Badger’s Daughter Speaks

Adam Day

Urban Fantasy

Denise Duhamel

Letters

David Sanders

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