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Microreview: G. C. Waldrep and John Gallaher, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts
Two poets collaborate on a shared present.
Microreview: Rob Schlegel, The Lesser Fields
Transition and transience govern the obsessions in this first collection.
Microreview: Christian Hawkey, Ventrakl
A ghost story—not in the flashlight-under-the-face, seated-around-the-campfire sense, but rather in the hauntological, Derridean one.
Me, Inc.
Even if the Supreme Court decided that corporations are in every way like persons, there might be limits on the corporate role in politics.
Aviator on the Prowl
The winner of Boston Review’s annual Aura Estrada short-story contest.
Bin Laden: The Movie
The director of The Hurt Locker takes on the 9/11 mastermind
Republicans’ 2012 Electoral Problem
Hispanics are developing stronger attachments to the Democrats.
A Beautiful Place
I was fifteen when we left Palestine in the summer of 2000, just a few months before the al Aqsa Intifada.
How to Write About Africa
At the offices of Kwani—a literary agitator without peer.
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