Cover art by Edel Rodriguez
Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
A Blind Eye
Revisiting Not I, a memoir of growing up in Nazi Germany.
Vivian Gornick
Special Section: On ICE
Poor Historians
Reporting from immigration court.
Joshua Craze
Two Raids on Canal Street
On the ground in Manhattan.
Liv Veazey
Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror
How to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
Robin D. G. Kelley interviewed by Deborah Chasman
The Path to the Trump Doctrine
From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.
Aslı Ü. Bâli, Aziz Rana
The Crypto Chokehold
Inside the coalition’s plan.
Gerald Epstein
The War No One Wanted
Loss and displacement in Sudan.
Joshua Craze, with photos by Salih Basheer
Celebrating 50 Years of Boston Review: Archive Selections
George Scialabba on Sven Birkerts, Jeet Heer on William Hogeland, Junot Díaz on Victoria Guerrero, Jessie Kindig on Christine Henneberg, Daniel Denvir on Harsha Walia, Pankaj Mishra on A. Dirk Moses, Katrina vanden Heuvel on Elaine Scarry
A Brief History of AI Psychosis
A short story.
Emmett Rensin
Antisemitism’s Lives
Benjamin Balthaser
Reviewed:
On Antisemitism: A Word in History
by Mark Mazower. Penguin Press, 2025.
Making the Deportation Machine
Marie Gottschalk
Reviewed:
The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration
by Brianna Nofil. Princeton, 2024.
The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
by Jessica Pishko. Dutton/Penguin Random House, 2024.
The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America
by Michelle S. Phelps. Princeton, 2024.
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
by Alec Karakatsanis. New Press, 2025.
