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View from the Mountaintop

Coal may not remain the cheapest source of electric power for much longer.

  • Richard Heinberg
Arts in Society

Women’s Bathroom, College of Arts

  • Jane Zwart
Arts in Society

Dear Modifications

  • Trey Sager
Arts in Society

Microreview: Robert Creeley, On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay

The final say of a poet who always spoke at the edges of the sayable.

  • Zack Finch
Arts in Society

Review: Micrographia

By Emily Wilson.

  • Katie Peterson
Arts in Society

Grief Abstracts

  • Julie Carr

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Arts in Society

Wonder Land

In Lennon's novels, it is not magic that is cruel, but rather its illusory promise.

  • G.C. Waldrep
Arts in Society

Chrysalis

Translated from the Polish by Karen Kovacik

  • Izabela Filipiak
  • Karen Kovacik
Arts in Society

Review: The Incentive of the Maggot

By Ron Slate.

  • Susan Barba
Arts in Society

Exchange Rate

Poetry in translation takes off.

  • Jordan Davis
Arts in Society

Ever was

  • Tom Thompson
Law Politics

Do the Right Thing

An anti-genocide policy that works.

  • Sarah Sewall
Politics

State of the Nation: How to Vote

— and what for.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
Law

Development in Dangerous Places

If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow.

  • Paul Collier
with responses from
  • Stephen D. Krasner
  • William Easterly
  • Larry Diamond
  • Edward Miguel
  • Mike McGovern
  • Nancy Birdsall
Arts in Society

Big Talkers

Frederick Seidel’s and Bernadette Mayer’s poetic monologues.

  • Raymond McDaniel
Law Philosophy Race

United By Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela.

  • Claudio Lomnitz
  • Rafael Sánchez
Politics

The Memory That Will Not Die

Exhuming the Spanish Civil War

  • Julius Purcell
Arts in Society

Double Gesture

Poetry in translation rarely gets much of a hearing in America, and Swedish poetry fares even worse.

  • Robert Archambeau
Law Politics Science

Cyber-Scare

The exaggerated fears over digital warfare.

  • Evgeny Morozov
Law Politics

The Best Hope–Still?

Despite large obstacles, Obama is right to push the two-state solution.

  • Jeremy Pressman
Law Politics

Dispatch from the Hebron Hills

For the last seven weekends in a row, violent settlers from neighboring Bat Ayin have attacked the Palestinian farmers here.

  • David Shulman
Law Politics

Beating Bad Karma

Iran’s crisis offers an opportunity for real change.

  • Abbas Milani
Arts in Society

Canceled

Winner of Boston Review’s sixteenth annual short story contest.

  • Jessica Treglia
Arts in Society

Freedom

They were free to leave The Prison, but they had nowhere to go. Every country on earth refused to accept them. 

  • Amy Waldman
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