Essays

The Reckoning

The proper place for religion in politics
Catherine Tumber

In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American liberalism
Lew Daly

Revolution

The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh
Nicholas Schmidle

New Fiction Forum

Transitory Cities

The winner of Boston Review's 14th annual ficton contest
Padma Viswanathan

Metamorphosis

Rosamond Purcell's natural history
John Crowley

On Film

Living Together

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Gravity and Fire

Peter Gizzi's The Outernationale
John Palattella

Oracle

Carol Frost's The Queen's Desertion
Garth Greenwell

Acts of Mind

Tomas Tranströmer's The Great Engima
Katie Peterson

Microreviews

Poems

from Liner Notes

Andrew Mister

The Attorney Updates His Architect Spouse After Finding Premises for a Transcending Facility

Andrew Seguin

Boom Kiss Boom Boom Kiss

David Lau

A Name for This Bird

Nicholas Laughlin

Dreams Like a Bird

Nicholas Laughlin

Lookouts and Spies

Deborah Anne Roth

Sorry, T.

Brenda Shaughnessy

The Terrior

Jean Esteve

Of Progress and Implied Mission

Kara Kelsey

Poet's Sampler: Kevin Davies

Introduced by Joshua Clover