Big Spenders

Andrew Mayersohn

Scotland’s Next Move

Stephen Phelan

Slumming It

Claude S. Fischer

Democratic Science

Anne Fausto-Sterling


Special Section: AFTER THE WALL

Zero Hour

Paul Hockenos

Ireland’s Cold War

Henry Farrell

Brazil’s Era of Possibility

Gianpaolo Baiocchi


Spill

Beth Bachmann

Archaeology: Toolbox with Level

Cara Chamberlain

What Happened to the Bird People

Monique Wentzel

Survival Italian

Chad Davidson

Good Feminist

Vivian Gornick

Reviewed:

Men Explain Things To Me

by Rebecca Solnit. Haymarket Books, 2014.

What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women’s Movement

by Deborah L. Rhode. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements

by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry. Liveright, 2014.

Portrait of a Hanged Woman

Monica Youn

Selling Fast

Mike Konczal

Reviewed:

Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940

by Nicholas R. Parrillo. Yale University Press, 2013.

The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession

by Dana Goldstein. Doubleday, 2014.

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces

by Radley Balko. PublicAffairs, 2014.

Lamentation of the Hanged Man

Monica Youn

Goodbye to All That, the Birds Included

Adam Clay

The Russians Came!

Val Vinokur

Growing Up: Badger’s Daughter Speaks

Adam Day

Urban Fantasy

Denise Duhamel

Seventeenth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest

francine j. harris selected by Major Jackson

Poems About Poems

Stephanie Burt

Reviewed:

The Book of Interfering Bodies

by Daniel Borzutzky. Nightboat, 2011.

The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal

by Tytti Heikkinen, trans. Niina Pollari. Action Books, 2013.

Complicity

by Adam Sol. McClelland and Stewart, 2014.

The Flame in the Grate

Joyelle McSweeney

Reviewed:

if only the night

by Uche Nduka. Sojourner Press, 2002.

eel on reef

by Uche Nduka. Akashic Books, 2007.

ljele

by Uche Nduka. Overpass Books, 2012.

Nine East

by Uche Nduka. Overpass Books, 2013.

Letters

David Sanders

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Corporate Relations

by Jena Osman. Burning Deck, 2014.

Glitter Bomb

by Aaron Belz. Persea Books, 2014.

Thunderbird

by Jane Miller. Copper Canyon Press, 2013.

Hyperboreal

by Joan Naviyuk Kane. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

American Barricade

by Danniel Schoonebeek. YesYes Books, 2014.

The Natural

Alan A. Stone

Making Waves

Anita Pouchard Serra