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Politics

Can Social Movements Save Democracy?

Lessons from grassroots organizing.

  • Archon Fung

Nonfiction Microreviews

February/March 2003

Arts in Society

Celebrating Presence

Recasting the poetry of loss.

  • Tod Marshall
Arts in Society

Laughter and Oblivion

Skid by Dean Young.

  • Sarah Manguso
Arts in Society

Poetic IDs

Borrowed Love Poems by John Yau.

  • Thomas Fink
Arts in Society

The Uncertainty of Knowing

Carl Phillips' Rock Harbor.

  • James Longenbach

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Microreviews: February/March 2003

Eight new poetry collections.

Arts in Society

Reel Terrorism

Reconsidering Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers.

  • Alan A. Stone
Law

Civil Liberties after 9/11

We should resist trading off liberties for security for reasons of principle, pragmatism, and self-interest.

  • David Cole
with responses from
  • Bonnie Honig
  • Amitai Etzioni
  • Gerald L. Neuman
  • Juliette Kayyem
  • Philip A. Thomas
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Oren Gross
  • Hiroshi Motomura
  • Laurence Tribe
  • Wendy Kaminer
  • Mari Matsuda
Arts in Society

Noir Voyager

Alan Furst’s glamorous, doomed world.

  • Roger Boylan
Arts in Society

Homecoming

When I decided to tell the story of the dead in Yugoslavia, I learned the power of fiction as a political tool.

  • Natasha Radojcic-Kane
Philosophy Science

Return of the Repressed

The strange case of Masud Khan.

  • Robert S. Boynton
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Lawrence L. White

Introduced by Reginald Shepherd

  • Lawrence L. White
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Attachments

  • Richard Howard
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Daunting

  • John Latta
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Romp and Storm

  • John Latta
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9 table settings

  • Dorothea Tanning
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Flea Market (Rainy Day)

  • Dorothea Tanning
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from “[ Adam ]in fragments/with a poem engraved/down the thighs”

  • Brian Teare
Arts in Society

4:30 Lakeshore Limited Was in the Past

  • Rebecca Wolff
Arts in Society

Men I Don’t Talk to Anymore

Winner of the Tenth Annual Boston Review Short Story Contest.

  • Gale Renee Walden
Philosophy Politics

Taking Ideas Seriously

Can we distinguish political choices from philosophical truths?

  • Seyla Benhabib

Nonfiction Microreviews

December 2002/January 2003

Arts in Society

Green, Prickly Humanity

Rural Wisconsin’s exhilarating, lost poet

  • Karen Volkman
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