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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Highway to Hell

A reading list for our time of climate crisis.

Killing the Commons

A reading list on the privatization of public space.

Get Organized

“Organizing is the strategy on which the success of all others depend. Yet it is the strategy that most progressives talk about the least.”

Sex Work is Work

—and why consent isn’t the same thing as good sex. An International Whores Day reading list.

Abortion’s Past and Future

Roe v. Wade is increasingly under threat.

What Marx Got Wrong About Capitalism

A Racial Capitalism Reading List

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Writing the Twentieth Century

Poets, philosophers, and playwrights.

How To Talk About Anti-Semitism

A reading list.

The College Admissions Scam Is Not the Problem

It’s not just celebrity moms — middle-class families are guilty too.

Everyday Philosophy

No dead guys with beards in this reading list, we promise.

Taxes, Damned Taxes, and Statistics

A close look at the legacy of trickle-down taxation.

Haiti, Disaster, and Revolution

Suffering in Haiti is a manmade, not a natural, disaster.

Is Citizenship Meaningless?

A reading list on surveillance, security, and citizenship-for-sale.

Noam Chomsky – Essential Reads

The “father of modern linguistics” turns 90.

Amazon’s Empire

Our best writers take on the retail giant.

Our Favorite Interviews

Susan Sontag. Margaret Atwood. Errol Morris. David Runciman. China Miéville.

Where Have All the Unions Gone?

On the state of labor.

Liberalism and the Left

American politics has seen the fiercest resurgence of left-liberal conflict since the 1960s.

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