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In Search of John Ashbery

Beyond the same old pipings.

  • Forrest Gander
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Prisoners’ Poems

Captivity by Laurie Sheck.

  • G.C. Waldrep
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Light and Twilight

The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.

  • Karen Volkman
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Spit

  • Christine Garren
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The Folded Message

  • Christine Garren
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The Greenness of Grass Is a Positive Quality

  • Samuel Amadon

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The Prince of Rivers

  • Craig Morgan Teicher
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Lullaby

  • Carrie Robb
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Millions of Strange Shadows on You Tend

—Shakespeare, sonnet 53

  • Calvin Bedient
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This book can’t be sung

(Reading Walden)

  • Brian Teare
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The very air

(Faith Reason)

  • Brian Teare
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Poet’s Sampler: Ewa Chrusciel

  • Ewa Chrusciel
  • Jorie Graham
Law Politics

The View from Tehran

Changing Iran from within.

  • Akbar Ganji
Law

Nuclear Freeze

The Middle East and global arms control.

  • Hans Blix
Law

Carrots and Sticks

Remarks from the U.S. Under Secretary of State.

  • R. Nicholas Burns
Law Politics

A Third Way

Normalizing relations will help Iran and the United States.

  • Michael McFaul
  • Abbas Milani
Politics

The Reckoning

On the proper place for religion in politics.

  • Catherine Tumber
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In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American Liberalism

  • Lew Daly
Politics

Revolution

The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh.

  • Nicholas Schmidle
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Transitory Cities

Winner of the 14th Annual Boston Review Short Story Contest

  • Padma Viswanathan
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Metamorphosis

Rosamond Purcell's Natural History

  • John Crowley
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Living Together

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

  • Alan A. Stone
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Gravity and Fire

The Outernationale by Peter Gizzi.

  • John Palattella
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Oracle

The Queen's Dissertion by Carol Frost.

  • Garth Greenwell
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