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: April/May 2001

Seven new poetry collections.

The Dream Salon

  • Katherine Soniat

Sonnet

  • Charles North

Wild Goose Chase

  • Sarah Manguso

Eidetic

  • Harriet Zinnes

The Bedbug Variations

  • Spencer Short

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from Mr. Bondo’s Unshared Life

  • James Cervantes

Half the Half-Nocturnes

  • Brenda Hillman

the noise of time

  • David Antin

The Task

  • Paul Hoover

Political Football

  • Alan A. Stone

Happy World

What Lyn Hejinian's poetry tells us about chance, fortune, and pleasure.

  • Marjorie Perloff

One Night a Year

A short story. 

  • Kate Small

A Comedy with Animals

Ernest Hemingway, Jane Kendall Mason, and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

  • Alane S. Mason

Review: The Lecturer’s Tale

By James Hynes. 

  • Eliza Nichols

Review: Kingdom of Shadows

By Alan Furst.

  • Lev Raphael

Review: Gob’s Grief

By Chris Adrian. 

  • Drake Bennett

Review: Microcosms

By Claudio Magris.

  • Justin Coffin

Review: Purgatorio

Translated by W. S. Merwin.

  • Brett Foster

The Ethical Poetic

Review: Utopic and Civilian Histories.

  • Tod Marshall

Contemporary American Poetry

Review: Regions of Unlikeness and Poetic Culture. 

  • Andrew Osborn

Microreviews: February/March 2001

Eight new collections of poetry. 

Poet’s Sampler: Orides Fontela

Introduced by Brenda Hillman

  • Orides Fontela

A Guidebook to When Things Were Better

  • John Gallaher
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