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Arts in Society

When I’m speaking, I’m not crying

  • Susan Stewart
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When I’m crying, I’m not speaking

  • Susan Stewart
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They’re Putting a New Door In

  • Brian Kim Stefans
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Poet’s Sampler: Cristina Rivera-Garza

Introduced by Lynn Emanuel

  • Cristina Rivera-Garza
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Plus Appetite

  • Frances Richard
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from Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

Cornel West makes the point that hope is different from American optimism. After the initial presidential election results come in, I stop watching the news.

  • Claudia Rankine

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Gin

  • Joe Millar
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Direction

  • Aaron Belz
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Microreviews: Summer 2003

Nine new poetry collections.

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Bleeding, Beading, Trickling

Spar by Karen Volkman. 

  • Noah Eli Gordon
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Venus Becomes a Document

Talking Cures by Richard Howard.

  • BK Fischer
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As If Washing Might Make It Clean

Paul Muldoon's Moy Sand and Gravel.
 

  • Jenny Ludwig
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The Unfinishable Robert Lowell

Opening a window onto the life of a great American poet. 

  • James Longenbach
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An Indian Realist in a World of Fiction

On writing Bunker 13.

  • Aniruddha Bahal
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Adam Thorpe’s One-Man Show

Novellist and Mime Street Entertainer of the Year. 

  • James Hynes

Nonfiction Microreviews

Summer 2003

Outside Providence

  • Jefferson Decker
Law Politics Race

Still Blaming the Victim

In Young, Gifted, and Black, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard III do not address the deep structural inequalities that are the chief causes of the achievement gap.

  • Charles R. Lawrence, III

Still Blaming the Victim

Arts in Society Philosophy Politics

Iran’s Other Religion

The birthplace of Zarathustianism.

  • Jehangir Pocha
Philosophy Politics

Memory’s Lair

Memory, like everything else in the world, can be clumsily used, or unintelligently used, or used for false purposes or in bad faith.

  • Susie Linfield
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Model for a Square

10th annual Boston Review Short-Story Contest — high commended.

  • Weston Cutter
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The River Come Down

10th annual Boston Review Short-Story Contest — high commended.

  • Eben Wood
Class & Inequality Philosophy Politics

The Patriot Act on Campus

Defending the university after 9/11

  • Jonathan R. Cole
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