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Review: Bad Bad

By Chelsey Minnis.

  • Sasha Steensen
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Review: Fall

By Amy Newman.

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder
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Review: Brenda Is in the Room

By Craig Morgan Teicher.

  • Tara Neelakantappa Safronoff
Law Politics

Remembering Randall Forsberg

The originator of the idea of a “nuclear freeze.”

  • Joshua Cohen
Arts in Society

Every Leaf, Every Tree

An excerpt from Neel Mukherjee's forthcoming graphic novel. With art by Tom Uglow.

  • Neel Mukherjee
Arts in Society

Now There Are Two Poems in Which We Are Kissing

  • Rebecca Bridge

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Politics Race

The Call of the Tribe

What role should “identity” play in our politics and in our lives?

  • Glenn C. Loury
Philosophy Politics

Constitutional Conventions

Public history should make us think.

  • William Hogeland
Arts in Society Law Philosophy Politics

The Mourner’s Hope

Martha Nussbaum’s bat mitzvah talk, on grief and the foundations of justice.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
Class & Inequality

The Good Life

According to both a new book and the United Nations’ Human Development Index, the good life is about three things: living long, going to school, and being wealthy.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Class & Inequality Science

Not Free at Any Price

Why I switched to the One Laptop Per Child—and why I dropped it.

  • Richard M. Stallman
Arts in Society

Bad News

Authenticity and the South Asian political novel.

  • Amitava Kumar
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The Weight of Grief

A short story.

  • Kristin S. vanNamen
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Uproars

Leslie Epstein’s magic.

  • John Crowley
Arts in Society

What Does Woody Want?

Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Sarah Arvio

Winner of the eleventh annual Boston Review poetry contest, introduced by John Koethe

  • Sarah Arvio
  • John Koethe
Arts in Society

Listening to Poetry

Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me.

  • Zack Finch
Arts in Society

Wanderer

Jay Wright’s The Presentable Art of Reading Absence and Polynomials and Pollen

  • Aaron McCollough
Arts in Society

Microreview: Mary Jo Bang, Elegy

 Sixty-four lyrics written in the year following the death of Bang's son.

  • Robert Schnall
Arts in Society

Microreview: Lisa Samuels, The Invention of Culture

Poetry honeycombed with questions, doubts, promises.

  • Fred Muratori
Arts in Society

Microreview: Rosmarie Waldrop, Curves to the Apple

One of the leading voices in contemporary American poetry. 

  • Andy Frazee
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Microreview: Rusty Morrison, The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story

A book-length meditation on the death of Morrison's father.

  • Rebecca Porte
Arts in Society

Microreview: Sabra Loomis, House Held Together by Winds

Poems told by a little girl who exposes her dominating relatives.

  • Celia Bland
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A wellworn inclined ramp for launching vessels, or, body integrity identity disorder.

  • Thomas Hummel
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