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The Peculiar Gnosis of Trains

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Joining the Dark

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Poet’s Sampler: Toni Burge

Introduced by David St. John

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He Paves the Road with Iron Bars

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Science

End of the Wild

The extinction crisis is over. We lost.

Politics

Endgame

Conservatives after the Cold War.

Law Politics

Resolving to Resist

Local governments are refusing to comply with the Patriot Act.

Law Politics

The People v. Judicial Activism

Who has the last word on the Constitution?

Politics

Revolutionary Consent

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

Philosophy Politics

Muslims and Citizens

France’s headscarf controversy.

Politics

Common Ground

An immigration crisis in the European Union.

Philosophy Science

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.

Philosophy Politics

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. 

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A Knot of Obsessions

The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes.

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Fellow Travelers

Fanny Howe's Gone.

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Their Kind of Town

New collections from young American poets.

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Microreviews: February/March 2004

Seven new publications.

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A Good Look

The Station Agent, directed by Thomas McCarthy.

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