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  • Anthony Opal
Law Philosophy Science

Advertising Away Our Privacy

By routinely giving away a huge amount of personal data, everyday Internet users might already have become law enforcement’s greatest ally.

  • Evgeny Morozov
Arts in Society

Microreview: Shane McCrae, Mule

Poems about being “half.”

  • Amelia Klein
Arts in Society

Microreview: Anja Utler, Engulf—Enkindle

An exciting young German-language poet of rare linguistic and imaginative inventiveness and power.

  • Paul Franz
Arts in Society

Microreview: Ewa Chrusciel, Strata

Remarkable prose poems from Poland.

  • Tony Brinkley
Arts in Society

Microreview: Heather Christle, The Difficult Farm

A powerful voice in younger American poetry has arrived.

  • Robert Schnall

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Arts in Society

Microreview: Joanna Klink, Raptus

Joanna Klink’s third collection, Raptus, masterfully navigates the treacherous zone between the lyric and the all-too poetical.

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder
Class & Inequality Politics Race

Wronged Without Recourse

Supreme Court Precedent Sets Back Worker Rights

  • Jessica Garrick
  • Andrew Schrank
Arts in Society Politics

Seriously Funny

On Howard Jacobson, the Jewish Jane Austen.

  • Roger Boylan

From the Editors: September/October 2011

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Law Politics

Extreme Injury

Once eight countries have nuclear weapons, people everywhere on earth potentially ‘have’ them.

  • Elaine Scarry
Law Politics

Freedom Is a Way of Life

The Arab Summer in Tunisia

  • Josh Martin
Arts in Society

Revaluing the Book

An interview with Richard Nash.

  • Richard Nash
  • Matt Runkle
Class & Inequality Law Politics

Accounting Failure

What Sarbanes-Oxley Teaches Us About Dodd-Frank

  • Francine McKenna
Arts in Society Science

What’s in a Name?

A Case for Pseudonyms

  • Jillian C. York
Law Politics

Border Wars

A Boston Review Book

  • Tom Barry
Law

Underground In Beirut

A Syrian activist continues the fight from Lebanon.

  • Josh Wood
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Rodney Jack

Poems by Rodney Jack.

  • Cate Marvin
  • Wayne Johns
  • Rodney Jack
Race

Leadership, Free to Lead

The Urgency of Campaign-Finance Reform

  • Charles “Buddy” Roemer
with responses from
  • Adam Bonica
  • Richard Briffault
  • Michael J. Malbin
  • Warren Rudman
  • Sheila Krumholz
Class & Inequality Law Politics

Who Represents the Poor?

The limits of the NGO movement in global development.

  • Pranab Bardhan
Science

Thinking in an Emergency

An Interview with Elaine Scarry

  • David V. Johnson
  • Elaine Scarry
Law

China’s Other Revolution

Though there has been no “Chinese Spring,” it would be hard to describe what has transpired in China over the past twenty years as anything but a revolution.

  • Edward S. Steinfeld
with responses from
  • Andrew G. Walder
  • Helen H. Wang
  • Baogang He
  • Ying Ma
  • Guobin Yang
Arts in Society

In the Details

Looking Closely with Allan Peterson

  • Stephanie Burt
Arts in Society Politics

When That Becomes This

Comparison in politics and poetry.

  • David Micah Greenberg
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