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Democracy After Citizens United

The private funding of public campaigns has bred within Congress a conflicting dependency.

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Mouse in a Government Building

  • Shelley Roche-Jacques
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If a Train

  • Jason Labbe

From the Editors: September/October 2010

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
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Always a Fragment. Telephony

  • Miłosz Biedrzycki
Gender & Sexuality Philosophy

Mothers Who Care Too Much

Stay-at-home mothering is bad for mothers, their kids, and women’s equality.

  • Nancy J. Hirschmann
with responses from
  • Shannon Hayes
  • Robin West
  • Lisa Dodson
  • Melody Berger
  • Ann Friedman
  • Mona Harrington
  • Lane Kenworthy
  • Anne L. Alstott

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Class & Inequality Law

The War for Drugs

How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city.

  • Sarah Hill
Philosophy Politics Science

Sharing Liberally

The main argument of Cognitive Surplus rests on a striking analogy. 

  • Evgeny Morozov
Arts in Society Class & Inequality

Clear and Hold

The Return of the Urban Dreamscape—in Brooklyn

  • Casey Walker
Class & Inequality Politics

Mind the Gap

Are the harms of economic inequality primary psychological?

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

How Do I Explain?

The winner of Boston Review’s seventeenth annual short story contest

  • Adam Sturtevant
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Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

A short story from one of America’s most celebrated, and controversial, fiction writers.

  • Samuel R. Delany
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The Gentleman Thief

A short story by the 2009 Bita Prize winner.

  • Goli Taraghi
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Between Two Worlds

Goli Taraghi accepts the Bita Prize.

  • Goli Taraghi
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Curtain Call

Marco Bellocchio’s "Vincere"

  • Alan A. Stone
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Poetry Hot and Cold

Reviewing Leland Hickman and Myung Mi Kim.

  • Calvin Bedient
Arts in Society Politics

Before History

Harry Clifton's Secular Eden.

  • Alissa Valles
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Without End

The poems of Ann Lauterbach’s Or to Begin Again probe the difficult questions—ethical, emotional, political, and even spiritual—of accounting for despair.

  • Richard Deming
Arts in Society

Review: The Living Fire

By Edward Hirsch.

  • Piotr Florczyk
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Review: The Stranger Manual

By Catie Rosemurgy.

  • Elizabeth Gramm
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Review: Clampdown

By Jennifer Moxley.

  • Christopher Schmidt
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Review: Full Catastrophe Living

By Zach Savich.

  • Lindsay Turner
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Review: Tracer

By Richard Greenfield.

  • Haines Eason
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Poet’s Sampler: Arlo Quint

  • Arlo Quint
  • Anselm Berrigan
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