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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Privacy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
An “unholy alliance” of state and private industry threatens to undermine democracy and individual autonomy.
Remembering James Baldwin
Explore the ideas, influence, and legacy of this extraordinary American writer.
Reproductive Justice After Roe
As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.
No Struggle, No Progress
A Juneteenth reading list on racial capitalism, resistance, and remaking the world.
White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream
Contemporary gun violence is not so much terrorism as tradition. It is deeply intertwined with the white supremacist foundations of the United States.
A Philosophy of Philosophers
New translations of Wittgenstein, Bachmann, and more in today’s reading list.
Where Egalitarianism Went Wrong
—and what it still has to offer. A reading list on equality, Rawls, and the struggle for a more just world.
Are Harvard’s Admissions Practices Racist?
–and other questions, as the controversial case is set to go before the Supreme Court.
Reviving the Radical King
“Forget the dream, he called for a revolution.” An MLK Day reading list on how his radicalism was erased.
Five Years without Cedric Robinson
A collection of our best essays on the distinguished political theorist, racial capitalism, and the Black radical tradition.
Poetry Collection: Belonging
The first in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month.
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