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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Criticism, Poem, Memoir, Short Story

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Fiction, Film and TV, Literature, Music, Poetry, Visual Art

Poet’s Sampler: Curtis Bonney

Introduced by Maxine Chernoff

  • Curtis Bonney

Not Rome

  • April Bernard

Holiday à la Carte

  • Michael Coffey

Sequel #3

  • Ray DiPalma

Sequel #17

  • Ray DiPalma

Exhibit: Leftover Model from the Museum of History

  • Claire Hero

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Thermodynamics

  • Arthur Sze

Microreviews: Summer 2002

Sixteen new poetry collections.

Innocents Abroad

We Were Soldiers, directed by Randall Wallace.

  • Alan A. Stone

One Last Thing

A short story. 

  • Ryan G. Van Cleave

High Art in the Age of Oprah

The case of Jonathan Franzen.

  • James Campbell

The Far North

Review: Harold Norman

  • Drake Bennett

Where Every Eye’s a Guard

Rae Armantrout's poetry of suspicion.

  • Stephanie Burt

Seven New Books

From Cathy Park Hong to Andrew Zawacki.

  • Calvin Bedient

Review: Transfigurations

The collected poems of Jay Wright.

  • Steven Meyer

Three Irish Poets

Revieing Carson, Muldoon, and Murphy.

  • Thomas O’Grady

Microreviews: April/May 2002

Seventeen new poetry collections.

Grand Cascade

  • Clayton Eshleman

Uncanny Earth, A Funny Thing to Feel

  • Joshua Green

“not (as though, at last”

  • Nicholas Laughlin

“what first unfurled”

  • Nicholas Laughlin

13th Street Is Not Called 13th Street. It’s Called Baughman.

  • Edward Mycue

Poltergeist House Eclogue

  • John Kinsella

Poet’s Sampler: Emily Wilson

Introduced by James Galvin

  • Emily Wilson
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