Reading Lists

Our weekly Reading Lists compile editors’ selections from Boston Review’s decades-long archive that speak to the pressing political, cultural, and intellectual debates of our time.

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Burning Up

On global warming, climate change, and paths to a green future.

American Revolutions and Counterrevolutions

Martha Nussbaum, Robin D. G. Kelley, Noam Chomsky, and more

Two Years After Dobbs

Judith Levine, Christine Henneberg, and others

In the Shadow of Stonewall

On the mixed legacies of Pride and queer liberation.

The 2020 Uprisings, Four Years Later

Derecka Purnell, Elizabeth Hinton, Alex Vitale, and more

The Fascism Question

Alberto Toscano, Robin D. G. Kelley, Prabhat Patnaik, and more.

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Remember Yugoslavia?

The NATO airstrikes, twenty-five years later.

Taxing Toward Utopia

Taxes are good for democracy.

Celebrating National Poetry Month

Ocean Vuong, John Ashbery, Claudia Rankine, and more.

The “Migrant Crisis”

Harsha Walia, Greg Grandin, Paul M. Renfro, and more.

Seeking Political Solutions in Israel and Palestine

One state, two states, and other proposals for peace.

Power, Politics, and Markets

The free market is not what it seems.

The Death and Life of the Author

Art, literature, and authorship in the age of generative AI.

Israel and Hamas at War

A collection on the deep context required to make sense of the violence.

Land, Language, and History

An Indigenous Peoples’ Day reading list

Everyone’s a Critic

The art and practice of literary criticism

The Future of Liberalism

Does it offer conceptual tools that could help us tackle today’s crises?

The First 9/11

The U.S.-backed coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende took place fifty years ago this week.

The Long Reach of Campus Politics

The university plays a central role in broader struggles over economic and political power.

Making Hope Possible

On the utopian and dystopian tendencies of our current conjuncture.

Politics Is Bananas

After years of relative neglect, consumption is once again being politicized.

The Precarious State of Israeli Democracy

Putting Israel’s recent protests in context.

The Question Concerning (Workplace) Technology

Will workers and the public get a say in how it’s used?

The Secret History of Revolutions

From the Magna Carta to the Mexican Revolution, there’s more to them than meets the eye.

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