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

High Church

  • Timothy Liu

His Legacy

  • Timothy Liu

It Was a Rat That Carried Your Heart to the Sea

  • Kyle McCord

The Novel Is Not Dead

Despite critics’ best attempts to kill it.

  • Jess Row

The Shunting Trains Trace Iron Labyrinths

  • Ana Menéndez

Hello, Columbus

Even the Rain (También la lluvia) Directed by Icíar Bollaín

  • Alan A. Stone

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Rational Rational

  • Joel Craig

Prose, Thinly Disguised as an IKEA Superstore

  • Vincent Czyz

Seed Vault (Corrupted Haibun)

  • Kerri Webster

A Refutation of Common Sense

An Interview With John Ashbery

 

  • Adam Fitzgerald

Metropolis, Restored Edition

Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, September 14, 2010

  • A. Van Jordan

apoplectic birds

  • Julie Carr

The Anatomy of Influence

An Interview With Harold Bloom

 

  • Adam Fitzgerald

For My Parents on Their Wedding Anniversary

  • Noelle Kocot

Yakking Points

  • Mark Yakich

Sporting Life

  • D. A. Powell

I Didn’t See It

  • Prageeta Sharma

Novenary

  • Joanna Klink

The Soul

  • Tracy K. Smith

Doubt

  • Jennifer Grotz

Reading Journal: That This

  • Stephanie Sandler

Sore Throat

  • Katie Peterson

I Know Hephaestus, It’s Tough Loving Love

  • Kent Shaw

Spiritual Laws

(from Conversations over Stolen Food)

  • Jon Cotner
  • Andy Fitch
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