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Poet’s Sampler: Toni Burge

Introduced by David St. John

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End of the Wild

The extinction crisis is over. We lost.

  • Stephen M. Meyer
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Endgame

Conservatives after the Cold War.

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Resolving to Resist

Local governments are refusing to comply with the Patriot Act.

  • Elaine Scarry
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The People v. Judicial Activism

Who has the last word on the Constitution?

  • Larry Kramer
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Revolutionary Consent

What the public life of American colonists can teach us about politics.

  • Barbara Clark Smith
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Muslims and Citizens

France’s headscarf controversy.

  • John R. Bowen
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Common Ground

An immigration crisis in the European Union.

  • Michael Standaert
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Reading Your Mind

How our brains help us understand other people.

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If It’s Anywhere, It’s Behind Us

Winner of the Eleventh Annual Boston Review Short Story Contest.

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The Chosen People

Rather than apologizing for the Jewish tradition or putting it on a pedestal, The Jewish Political Tradition stresses its living and agonistic character.

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The Lost Ones

John Banville's existentialist novels.

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A Lunatic Faith

Writing an epistolary novel. 

  • Elisabeth Robinson
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A Knot of Obsessions

The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes.

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Fanny Howe's Gone.

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Their Kind of Town

New collections from young American poets.

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Seven new publications.

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The Station Agent, directed by Thomas McCarthy.

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