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Arts in Society

Puff-puff-puff! Parading Grandpas

  • Miłosz Biedrzycki
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Reductive

  • Arthur Vogelsang
Arts in Society

No Letting Go

Bob Hicok's Words for Empty and Words for Full.
 

  • Keith Taylor
Arts in Society

The Fold

  • Jose Perez Beduya
Arts in Society

Off Minor

Robin D.G. Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original restores the pianist and composer to the history he lived through.

  • Scott Saul
Arts in Society

Review: The Mansion of Happiness

By Robin Ekiss.

  • Elisabeth Divis

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Law Politics

At War In Texas

Federal border policy is now effectively dictated by alarmist border-area sheriffs and politicians.

  • Tom Barry
Law

Al Qaeda and the Pakistan Floods

Natural disaster is paving the way for the manmade variety.

  • Syed Saleem Shahzad
Arts in Society

The Rebel

Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love

  • Alan A. Stone
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Conquest

  • Adam L. Dressler
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Sarah V. Schweig

  • Sarah V. Schweig
  • Mark Strand
Arts in Society

The Nerve Fibers

  • Mary Jo Bang
Science

Colonial Studies

What humans can learn from the non-hierarchical organization of ants.

  • Deborah M. Gordon
Law Politics

Immigrants and the Right to Stay

A Boston Review Book

  • Joseph H. Carens
Arts in Society

Zigzag Ice Dragon

A hike in Tibet

  • Matthew Fishbane
Arts in Society

Review: Bluets

By Maggie Nelson.

  • Kathleen Rooney
Arts in Society

Degrees of Sight

Rain: Poems by Don Paterson

  • Dai George
Law

Originalism Spells the Death of the U.S. Constitution

The median lifespan of a national constitution is roughly the life expectancy of a Great Dane. Why has the U.S. Constitution endured? In part because judges have escaped the stranglehold of originalism.

  • Pamela S. Karlan
Politics

Real Americans

Repeatedly in U.S. history, liberalism and populism have defined themselves by rhetorical rejection of the other.

  • William Hogeland
Arts in Society

The Ancient Dream

The tumultuous marriage of Leo and Sophia Tolstoy

  • Vivian Gornick
Arts in Society

Virgil’s Cow

By Frederick Farryl Goodwin.

  • Samuel Amadon
Politics

State of the Nation: Elections Foretold

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
Science

Preparing for Climate Change

A Boston Review Book

  • Michael D. Mastrandrea
  • Stephen H. Schneider
Politics

Democracy after Citizens United

The framers intended Congress to be “dependent upon the People alone,” but the private funding of public campaigns has bred within Congress a conflicting dependency.

  • Lawrence Lessig
with responses from
  • Will Wilkinson
  • Marvin Ammori
  • David Donnelly
  • David N. Bossie
  • Allison R. Hayward
  • John Bonifaz & Jeffrey Clements
  • Representative Donna F. Edwards
  • Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
  • Nancy L. Rosenblum
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