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

Manual for Remembering

  • Sina Queyras

Fifteen Answers of the King to His Questioners

  • Danniel Schoonebeek

Living the Dream

Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P.

  • Alan A. Stone

Three Poems

  • Charlotte Lieberman

To move and the play.

  • Thomas Hummel

Two Poems

  • Camille Rankine

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Seven Questions on Milk and Filth

  • Lynn Melnick
  • Carmen Giménez Smith

My Body

  • Carmen Giménez Smith

They Came to Bury Him

Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics

  • Diana Arterian

Intimate Obscenity

  • Rob Halpern

Gray Area

  • Liz Countryman

Microreview: Emily Pettit, Goat in the Snow

A radiant debut.

  • Sasha Fletcher

Excavation

  • Julian B. Gewirtz

Lunar/Lunario

  • Marcia Mogro
  • Carol Peters

Issue

  • Michele Glazer

Children of the Flood

  • Tyler Mills

Two Poems

  • Dorothea Lasky

Trance Notebook #18

  • Wayne Koestenbaum

Future Doors

An Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum

  • Wayne Koestenbaum
  • Stefania Heim

from SIGINT

  • Ken Babstock

Still Life with Antlers

  • Sally Wen Mao

A Hearing

  • Robyn Schiff

Claiming Language

  • Shane McCrae

A Woman and Her Job

  • Elizabeth Clark Wessel
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