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Fragments

Translated from the Japanese by Yuki Tanaka and Mary Jo Bang

  • Shūzō Takiguchi
Law

I Was Hacked by ISIS

With terrorism scares aplenty, how worried should one be?

  • Judith Levine
Gender & Sexuality Philosophy Politics

The Religious-Liberty Attack on Transgender Rights

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

  • David Sehat
Politics

The Brazilian Coup’s Image Problem

New leaks prove the impeachment is intended to protect corrupt politicians.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Arts in Society

Elusive Particles

Rae Armantrout draws on the language of physics to explore modern life.

  • Lisa K. Perdigao
Arts in Society

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The word saudades cannot easily be translated. Our mother & i translate Brazilian poetry, & when we come to the word saudades we hesitate. . . .

  • Brenda Hillman

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Arts in Society

Uncertain Death

Critics take for granted that Primo Levi killed himself. But doubts remain.

  • Diego Gambetta
Law

In Syria, Keeping the Faith

Democratic forces persist amid brutal regime violence and sectarian conflict.

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Class & Inequality Race

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

Bad police were not simply a symptom of racism. They were often its agents.

  • Daniel Geary
Arts in Society

A Disservice

  • John Ashbery
Race

What Good Is History for African Americans?

To be useful, it has to help us think about who we should become as a nation.

  • Melvin Rogers
Philosophy Politics

Rights vs. Duties

In the age of human rights, the language of duties has withered.

  • Samuel Moyn
Class & Inequality Race

What’s in a Name?

Yale’s president can’t make something less racist by fiat.

  • Karléh Wilson
Arts in Society

Spring Poetry Reading

Poems to savor beneath flowering trees.

  • Boston Review
Class & Inequality Politics

Should the Middle Class Fear the World’s Poor?

Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.

  • Marshall Steinbaum
Politics

The Base

With Bernie Sanders’s campaign reeling, what’s next for progressive activists?

  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Arts in Society

Discovery Poetry Contest Winners

Selected work from this year’s winners.

  • Ryan Fox
  • Carlie Hoffman
  • Gala Mukomolova
  • Miller Oberman
Arts in Society

Pilgrim’s Progress

Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is lost in its own symbolism.

  • Alan A. Stone
Class & Inequality Race

Fifty Years Ago, the Government Said Black Lives Matter

The radical conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Report.

  • Julian E. Zelizer
Arts in Society Gender & Sexuality

The End of Gender

Eileen Myles’s celebrity shouldn’t eclipse her skill as a poet.

  • erica kaufman
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Vidhu Aggarwal, illustrated by Bishakh Som

Introduced by Bhanu Kapil

  • Vidhu Aggarwal
  • Bishakh Som
  • Bhanu Kapil

From the Editors: May/June 2016

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Science

How Stuff Works

A primer on the Standard Model.

  • Matthew Buckley
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Gender & Sexuality Politics

The Not-So-Revolutionary Single Woman

The family is changing. Will the social contract catch up?

  • Jessa Crispin
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