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

Shakur

  • Terrance Hayes

The Feast

  • David Baker

Blink

  • Linda Gregerson

E is for Everything

  • Mary Jo Bang

Poem for John McCain

  • Matthew Zapruder

Fawn

  • Joseph Campana

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Outpatient Procedure

  • Alan Gilbert

The Documents

  • Mathias Svalina

Flemish

  • Caroline Knox

Poet’s Sampler: Kristin Fitzsimmons

  • Kristin Fitzsimmons

Always at the After Party

Liberals and Libertarians: Kissing Cousins or Distant Relatives?

  • Joshua Cohen

Miss Peach: The Novel

  • Catie Rosemurgy

The Mind’s Eye

Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

  • Alan A. Stone

Water Damage

Two new collections challenge lyric's decorum.

  • Amelia Klein

Revelation

Readers of Barbara Guest should receive the publication of her Collected Poems with joy and relief.

  • Brian Teare

As One Bereft of Reason

  • Ken White

Topics for Amplification

  • Brett Fletcher Lauer

Objects

  • Martha Ronk

Fragment 941: Aphrodite of Kypros

—Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE)

  • Reginald Gibbons

Dies Irae

  • L.S. Asekoff

I Would Remain by Night with You

  • Joanna Klink

Sunday balustrade

translated from the German by J.D. Schneider

  • Ron Winkler

Money Shot

  • Rae Armantrout

Win

  • Rae Armantrout
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