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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Poet’s Sampler: Corina Copp
Reading Corina Copp’s work, one gets the sense that she is part of a long lineage of poets whose language is less a means to express what can be said than what should be said, or what has long been waiting to be said.
We Are All Khaled Said
An Interview with the Administrators of the Facebook Page that Fueled the Egyptian Revolution
Mutts
Duchess, the dog that Jack and his dad brought home, is sitting by the kitchen table in a pair of women’s underpants.
Unpacking
It’s strange to think of Katchor’s work as lifelike, but there it is. Its lifelikeness is partly a function of the felt possibility of ongoing randomness inherent in the comic-strip mode.
Cold Gem
Fuller enters a babblingly confident corporate world where he concedes that something frightful is on the way.
Microreview: Albert Mobilio, Touch Wood
Bare poetic essentials that at the same time function as gleaming ornaments.
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