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The Forgotten Baldwin

James Baldwin’s book about the Atlanta child murders speaks best to the era of Black Lives Matter.

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

Hwang Sok-yong’s new novel sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification.

Education & Opportunity

The Slow and Fast Assault on Public Education

Striking teachers and student activists have a common enemy.

Henry A. Giroux

Education & Opportunity

We Don’t Need No Education?

A controversial new book highlights the dire straits of the U.S. education system, but offers misguided and irresponsible ideas for fixing it.

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Fiction

Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body

Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.

BR Poetry Contest: Now Open!

Win $1,500 and online publication. This year's judge is Mary Jo Bang. Submit your entry by June 1.

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Fiction

Nobody Would Have Heard You

Motherhood can be a crushing disappointment.

Literature & Culture

Masters and Servants

Neel Mukherjee is part of a new generation of Indian writers dissecting postcolonialism’s failed promise of a classless society.

Gaiutra Bahadur

Politics, War & Security

Bloody Gina

Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing is later this week. Here’s why we should all be concerned.

Class & Inequality

Marx’s New Deal

On Marx’s two-hundredth birthday, capitalism’s ideology looks shakier than it has in a while.

Marshall Steinbaum

Poetry

What Nature

These poems are urgent calls for rethinking our place on an imperiled planet.

Poetry

2018 Discovery Poetry Contest Winners

In partnership with the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center, we proudly present the Discovery / Boston Review 2018 Poetry Contest winners.

Politics

Is There Such a Thing as Truth?

Noam Chomsky and Hilary Putnam on how language connects us to the world.

Law & Justice

Building Prisons in Appalachia

Eastern Kentucky will soon get a fourth federal prison but remains as poor as ever. The region deserves better.

Sylvia Ryerson, Judah Schept

Print Issues

Fifty Years Since MLK

What can Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy do for activism today?

POETRY

BR Poetry

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Class & Inequality

The Almost Inevitable Failure of Justice

Thad Williamson

Rooting for Elon

Globalization Survived Populism Once Before—and It Can Again

Mark Lilla and the Crisis of Liberalism

The Gig Economy's Great Delusion

Clara Hendrickson

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

Marx’s New Deal

Marshall Steinbaum

The Limits of Antitrust Enforcement

Who Is Watching Wall Street?

Lenore Palladino

Race

The Cost of Canonizing MLK

Brandon M. Terry

Brother Martin Was a Blues Man

The Almost Inevitable Failure of Justice

Thad Williamson

A Love Supreme

The Forgotten Baldwin

Baldwin’s Lonely Country

Guns in the Family

‘Black Panther’ Is Not the Movie We Deserve

Christopher Lebron

Against National Security Citizenship

The Best of 2017

READING LIST

Here’s a look at our top 25 most-loved stories from the year of Trump.

Our Top Stories on Race in 2017

READING LIST

In 2017, racism and xenophobia have played major roles in U.S. politics. As the year draws to a close, we present our top stories about race, immigration, and the dangerous ideology of white nationalism, from myths about Appalachia to racial capitalism to regimes of deportation.

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