Editors' Note

Black Voices in the Public Sphere: A Fellowship for Emerging Media Professionals

Announcing a fellowship to prepare and support the next generation of Black journalists, editors, and publishers.

Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology

Our members-only podcast is now available to all! A reading series of radical essays and speeches, season one highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Arts in Society

New Book: Ancestors

In our Winter 2021 book, some of today’s most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. Preorder now. 

Law & Justice

Who Deserves to Be Forgiven?

Forgiveness is a public good, but it is doled out unevenly. Justice demands we widen its reach beyond the select few.

Joseph Margulies

Law & Justice

How Law Made Neoliberalism

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal

Philosophy & Religion, Reading Lists

Rawls at 100

Happy birthday, John Rawls! We celebrate the political philosopher’s centenary, as well as the 50th anniversary of the publication of “A Theory of Justice.” 

Joshua Cohen, Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality

The Death of the Gay Bar

The pandemic may spell the end of many gay bars, but apps and increased acceptance for LGBTQ people meant most were already on the rocks. Should we mourn their passing?

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Arts in Society

The Millions

“Healing never restores us to the way we were before getting hurt.” A trip to Machu Picchu ends up offering surprising insights into what it means to be a survivor of the genocide of Native Americans.

Deborah Taffa

Politics

The Americans Who Embraced Mussolini

As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.

Justin H. Vassallo

Science & Nature

End Capitalism

If many marine mammals are on the verge of extinction, it is not for lack of environmental activism, but because we are entangled in a global financial system that it does not seem possible to transform.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Race

Immigration Enforcement and the Afterlife of the Slave Ship

Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.

Ryan Fontanilla