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

Fuel Adieu!

  • Terese Svoboda

Cloud Banks

  • Rob Stanton

The Rise of the Anti-Muslim Fringe

— and how it became mainstream.

  • Aziz Z. Huq

Love Poem with a Drone in It

  • Michael C. Peterson

Eight Essays on the Face

Frida Kahlo, Manet’s Olympia, and more. 

  • Virginia Konchan

Three Poems

  • Alejandra Pizarnik

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Three Poems

  • Jay Deshpande

Dead Man Talking

Brazil's Spiritists Redefine Religion

  • Laura Premack

Still Life with January

  • Sandra Meek

Two Poems

  • Jennifer L. Knox

Missing Person

  • A. H. Jerriod Avant

Two Poems

  • Elizabeth Scanlon

High Wire Acts

Speaking of Sonnets with Sandra Simonds, Michael Robbins, and Noelle Kocot

  • BK Fischer

from Venezianella and Studentaccio

  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

I Live in a Borrowed and Often Tender Multiplicity

  • Kristin Prevallet

Three Poems

  • Logan Fry

The Jerusalem Forest

Serving in the Israeli army as a foreign volunteer.

  • J. A. Bernstein

A Real Thief

  • Sandra Lim

Man Made Out of Words, Part Two

Part Two of  Mark Strand's Last Interview

  • Adam Fitzgerald

Five Poems

  • Juan Felipe Herrera

Two Poems

  • Sam Witt

Three Poems

  • Morgan Parker

Honey

  • Bruce Bond

Kids These Days

  • Hilary Vaughn Dobel
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