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Breakout

Hamas and the end of the two-state solution.

  • Helena Cobban
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The Unending War

On Argentina’s quest for justice.

  • Sam Ferguson
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American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.

  • William Hogeland
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The Bitter End

Jonah Goldberg’s liberal fascism.

  • Kevin Mattson
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Desaliento

The winner of Boston Review’s 15th annual fiction contest.

  • Patricia Engel
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Justify the Enemy

Becoming human in South Africa.

  • Zakes Mda

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Badlands

The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men Miramax Films (2007)

  • Alan A. Stone
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This Ecstatic Nation

Learning from Emily Dickinson after 9/11

  • Maureen N. McLane
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Ghosts

Susan Howe's Souls of the Labadie Tract

  • Andrew Zawacki
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The Writing Cure

Don Share's Squandermania

  • Erin Belieu
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Microreview: Ange Mlinko, Starred Wire

A collection that reveals a bizzaro America.

  • Travis Nichols
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Microreview: Jon Woodward, Rain

Poems that begin with the unexceptional and arrive at something transcendent.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher
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Microreview: Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets

151 sonnets about motherhood.

  • Cecily Parks
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Microreview: Peter Conners, Of Whiskey and Winter

Prose poems with affection for the unbeautiful. 

  • Nicholas Harp
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Microreview: Benjamin Friedlander, The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes

Bringing together Friedlander’s unpublished works.

  • Aaron McCollough
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Grace

  • Desirée Alvarez
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Torso of an Unknown Soldier

  • Bridgette Bates
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(Dialogue in a country graveyard)

  • Matevi Yankelevich
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  • D. A. Powell
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When the Moon Comes Up

  • Barbara Claire Freeman
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Hover, Coo

  • Frances Justine Post
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The World

  • Marie Howe
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Why the Novel Is Necessary but Sometimes Hard to Read

  • Marie Howe
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Principles of Uncertainty

  • Cynthia Lowen
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