Arts in Society

Boston Review’s Arts in Society section publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and criticism. It focuses on how the arts loosen the hold of convention, bear witness to injustice, provoke new ways of seeing the world, and speak to the most pressing political and civic concerns of our time.

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Microreviews: October/November 2002

Eight new poetry collections.

Poet’s Sampler: Katy Lederer

Introduced by Gillian Conoley

  • Katy Lederer

Fifth Annual Poetry Contest Winner: Max Winter

Introduced by James Tate

  • Max Winter

By the wayside

  • Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Facing South by True North

  • Don Hymans

Apostrophe (deftly turned phrase)

  • Bill Kennedy
  • Darren Wershler-Henry

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  • Karen Zusman

Contingency and Grace

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  • Alan A. Stone

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  • Michael Coffey

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  • Valerie Hurley

Herkunftscomplex

On Thomas Bernhard, Austria’s most infamous novelist. 

  • Jason M. Baskin

Obsessive Love

Review: Lucius Shepard and David Gilmour

  • Richard Burgin

The War at Home

Review: Nora Eisenberg

  • Jill Eisenstadt

Zeeland

Review: Hans Konig

  • Roger Boylan

Under the Influence

The intoxicating power of Kate Braverman's first novel.

  • Rick Moody

Review: Torn Awake and Such Rich Hour

Two new poetry collections. 

  • BK Fischer

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Pitting so-called postmodernism against modernism has given us a truncated view of literary history.

  • Yunte Huang

Review: Eunoia

By Christian Bök.

  • Brian Kim Stefans

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