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

The State Para-Military Force Speaks

  • Raena Shirali

Quinceañera

  • Erika L. Sánchez

One Hand in the Fig Basket

  • Catherine Blauvelt

from The Self Unstable

  • Elisa Gabbert

To Conda from Anaconda

  • David Biespiel

Sampling

  • Susan Wheeler

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Ostinato

  • Heather June Gibbons

Two Poems

  • Stephanie Strickland

Cats on Fire

  • Caleb Klaces

from Rocket Fantastic

  • Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Four Poems

  • Josey Foo

The Face of Someone

  • Shane McCrae

Love and Containment

  • Angie Mazakis

In a Landscape: XLIII

  • John Gallaher

In a Landscape: XLIV

  • John Gallaher

An Experiment in Artifice and Abject-oriented Ontology

  • Noah Eli Gordon

[A statue, an inescapable she…]

  • Bridgette Bates

Torso of a Female Figure (1)

  • Bridgette Bates

Torso of a Female Figure (2)

  • Bridgette Bates

Krapp Interviews the Glass Technician

  • Anne Carson

from Communist Couplets

  • Thibault Raoult

The Ghost of Berries

  • Joe Fassler

Two Poems

  • Mary Ruefle

String Theory

  • Amy King
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