State of the Nation

Anti-Semitism and the Economic Crisis

Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit

Essays

No Ordinary Success

The boundaries of school reform
James Forman, Jr.

Malpractice

When it comes to health care,
economists ignore their own rules
Dean Baker

Accidental Billionaire

Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly’s Unjust Deserts and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers
Claude S. Fischer

God’s Work

What can faith-based activism do for labor?
Nancy MacLean

New Fiction Forum

House of Men

Shivani Manghnani

On Film

Purple Gaze

José Luis Guerín’s In the City of Sylvia
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

The New Thing

The object lessons of recent
American poetry
Stephen Burt

Boston Review/“Discovery” Contest Winners!

The winners of the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center contest for emerging poets
Bridget Lowe, Jynne Dilling Martin, Jeffrey Schultz, and Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo.

The Fetch

Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know
Piotr Florczyk

Poems

[It’s not true that the world is an unending return]

Tadeusz Dąbrowski (translated by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska)

After Wang Ximeng’s Blue and Green Horizontal Landscape Scroll, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains

Xi Chuan (translated by Arthur Sze)

Mayflower Compact

Marc Walston

Cotton Mather Preaches on Satan

Marc Walston

Homecoming Dance

Jess Sauer

Evaporation 2

Forrest Gander

The Red Cipher

Craig Morgan Teicher

Diabolus in Musica

Christina Mengert

Antietam Primer

Mary Pinard

Poet’s Sampler: Marsha Pomerantz

Introduced by Daniel Bosch