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March/April 2008
Inside: Protecting the Internet without wrecking it: a New Democracy Forum; John Rawls reflects on baseball, Michael Gecan describes urban deline in the suburbs, and Suzane Gordon explores physicians' notions of quality health care. Fiction from Dagoberto Gilb and fiction reviews by Roger Boylan and Mythili G. Rao. Poetry reviews by Stephen Burt, Joyelle McSweeney, and Katie Peterson. Alan Stone reviews Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Poems by Raymond McDaniel, Linnea Ogden, Elisa Gabbert, Kathleen Rooney, Dan Beachy-Quick, Gerard Malanga, Kazim Ali, Melissa Kwasny, Samuel Menashe, Priscilla Becker, and Mark McKee. A poetry sampler by Stephen Sturgeon, introduced by Philip Nikolayev.

 

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January/February 2008
Inside: Nir Rosen on Al Qaeda in Lebanon; a special section on ending urban poverty with Dalton Conley, Patrick Sharkey, and Stefanie DeLuca. Pranab Bardhan on the rise of China and India; Vivian Gornick on Hannah Arendt. Fiction from Michael Agresta and fiction reviews by Dimiter Kenarov and Neel Mukherjee. Poetry reviews by Alan Gilbert, Jennifer Grotz, and Kathryn Crim. Alan Stone reviews Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Poems by Martha Zweig, Jennifer Chang, Iain Haley Pollock, Sabrina Orah Mark, Tomaž Šalamun, Mark Bibbins, and Martha Zweig. A poetry sampler from Cyrus Console, introduced by Geoffrey G. Obrien.

 

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November/December 2007
Inside: Abbas Milani and Akbar Ganji on Ahmadinejad's Iran; William Hogeland on Alexander Hamilton and American finance; Colin Dayan on prisoners' rights to read; Paul Hockenos on Germany's urban guerillas; Fiction by Matthew Stewart and Charles Johnson; Catalina Holguin's commentary on Haruki Murakami; Poetry reviews by W. Martin, Alissa Valles, and Reginald Shepherd; Alan A. Stone's review of Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah. Poems by Stephanie Anderson, John Spalding, Arthur Vogelsang, Scott Topper, Fred Muratori, John Updike, Rusty Morrison, Kevin Young, Matthew Dickman, Major Jackson, and Elizabeth Willis, winner of the tenth annual Boston Review poetry contest, selected by Susan Stewart.

 

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September/October 2007
Inside: Owen Fiss, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, and Jenny S. Martinez on international criminal courts; Nir Rosen on displaced Iraqis; Fiction by K.J. Bishop and Nicholas Delbanco; Poetry reviews by Celia Bland, Craig Morgan Teicher, and Geoffrey B. O'Brien; Alan A. Stone's review of Werner Herzog's film Rescue Dawn. Poems by Nadia Herman Colburn, Val Vinokur, Mary Jo Bang, Edip Cansever, Roberto Bolaño, James McCorkle, andAndrew Zawacki; Poet's sampler by Matt Shears, introduced by Claudia Keelan.

 

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July/August 2007
Inside: Glenn Loury on why so many Americans are in prison; Robert Blecher and Jeremy Pressman on Israel's existential crisis; George Scialabba on the curse of modernity; Anatol Lieven on where realists and progressives can meet; Charles Johnson on artistic passion;Aura Estrada on Cesar Aira and Roberto Bolano; Fiction by Patricia Engel, Roger Boylan and Scott Saul; Forrest Gander on John Ashbery; Poetry reviews by G.C. Waldrep and Karen Volkman;Alan A. Stone on Sarah Polley's Away From Her. Poems by Christine Garren, Samuel Amadon, Craig Morgan Teicher, Carrie Robb, Cal Bedient, Brian Teare; Poet's sampler by Ewa Chrusciel, introduced by Jorie Graham.

 

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May/June 2007
Inside: Nukes, Democracy, and Iran: Akbar Ganji on changing Iran from within; Hans Blix on global arms control; R. Nicholas Burns on U.S. policy; and Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani on a third way. Catherine Tumber on the place of religion in politics; Lew Daly on the Catholic roots of American liberalism; and Nicholas Schmidle on the Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh. Boston Review's Fiction Contest winner, Pama Viswanathan; John Crowley on Rosamond Purcell. Poetry review essays by John Palattella, Garth Greenwell, and Katie Peterson. Alan A. Stone revisits Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.Poems by Andrew Mister, Andrew Seguin, David Lau, Nicholas Laughlin, Deborah Anne Roth, Brenda Shaughnessy, Karla Kelsey, Jean Esteve, and Kevin Davies.

 

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March/April 2007
Inside: What Helps Poor Countries Grow? Nancy Birdsall on globalization and inequality; Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee goes inside the economic machine; Michael Kremer, David Clingingsmith, and Benjamin A. Olken present case studies. Sarah Chayes on selling out Afghanistan; Dalton Conley on the geography of poverty; Alex Byrne on knowing right and wrong. Fiction by Peter Mountford; Andrée Greene on Nigerian novelists; Jan Clausen on Sarah Waters. Review essays by Barbara K. Fischer, Calvin Bedient, and Victoria Chang. Alan A. Stone on Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel.Poems by Jorie Graham, Nick Twemlow, Carrie Bennett, Allen Grossman, Michael Robins, Susan Stewart, H.L. Hix, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Michele Glzaer, and James Hall.

 

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January/February 2007
Inside: Kerry Emanuel on climate change, with respondents' proposals for action. Joseph Nevins on East Timor, Maureen N. McLane on sex-ed wars, Ebrahim Moosa on joining a madrasa. Fiction by Ivelisse Rodriguez; Vivian Gornick on H.G. Wells; Roger Boylan on John McGahern. Review essays by Lawrence Rosen, Tanya Larkin, Brian Teare, and Joyelle McSweeney. Alan A. Stone discusses Marc Forster's Stranger than Fiction.Poems by Stephanie Cleveland, Travis Nichols, John Isles, John Ashbery, James Longenbach, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Rebecca Reynolds, Erica Bernheim, and Jynne Dilling Martin (introduced byMatthea Harvey).

 

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November/December 2006
Inside: Nir Rosen's special report, Anatomy of a Civil War. Elaine Scarry on why military honor matters; Helena Cobban on Israel and Lebanon; Anatol Lieven on using American force wisely. Fiction by Madeline Kotowicz; Charles Johnson on John Champlin Gardner; C.D. Wright introduces the winner of the ninth annual poetry contest. Review essays by Susan Barba and Tom Thompson. Alan A. Stone on Changing Times. Poems by Stephanie Pippin, Noah Eli Gordon, Nick Admussen, Landis Everson, Joan Houlihan, Martha Ronk, and David Blair (introduced by David Rivard).

 

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September/October 2006
Inside: Seeds of Change. Claudio Lomnitz on Latin America's rebellion; Michael J. Piore and Andrew Schrank on the human costs of free markets; Henry Farrell on political blogging; Heather Gerken on six ways to reform democracy—with Luis Ricardo Fraga, Archon Fung, Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela S. Karlan, Alex Keyssar, and Spencer Overton; Ruth Milkman on labor unions; Jonathan Fox on binational citizens; Susie Linfield on photography criticism; Mae M. Ngai on the immigration debate; Dalton Conley on Charles Murray. Reviews by Laila Lalami, John Wilkinson, John Palattella, Brian Kim Stefans and others. Alan A. Stone on Water. Fiction by Yvonne Woon. Poems by Jeremy Valentine Freeman, Frederick Farryl Goodwin, Kate Hall, Hank Lazer, Cate Marvin, Carey McHugh, Cecily Parks, and César Vallejo.

 


July/August 2006
Inside: Making Aid Work. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee on how to fight global poverty effectively—with Ian Goldin, F. Halsey Rogers, and Nicholas Stern; Mick Moore; Ian Vásquez; Angus Deaton; Alice H. Amsden; Robert H. Bates; Carlos Barbery; Howard White; Jagdish Bhagwati; Raymond C. Offenheiser and Didier Jacobs; and Ruth Levine. Jhumpa Lahiri on R.K. Narayan. Majorie Welish on Raymond Queneau. Reviews by Rebecca Saxe, Kevin Mattson, G.C. Waldrep, Katie Peterson, Stefania Heim and others. Alan A. Stone on L'Enfant. Fiction by Jennie Berner and T.E. Holt. Poems by Seth Abramson, Nicholas Harp, Quinn Latimer, Ben Lerner, Heather McHugh, Liam Rector, and Tom Thompson.

 

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May/June 2006
Inside: Free and Fair. Greg Grandin on Venezuela's Rebel President; Helena Cobban on Hamas's Next Steps; Stephen Glain on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood; Marc B. Haefele on Argentina's Campaign Against the Past. Ben-Zion Gold on Faith and Doubt; Alex Byrne on Consciousness; Jefferson Decker on how the Republicans came to rule the South. Fiction by Tiphanie Yanique; review essays by André Greene, Emily Barton, John Palatella, Ernest Larsen, Robert Hahn and others. Alan A. Stone on Judgement Day. Poems by Katy Lederer, Mark McMorris, Sandra Lim, Robert Desnos, William Kulik, Kathy Nilsson, Hugh Steinberg, Jenny Boully.

 

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March/April 2006
Inside: Can the People Rule? Gianpaolo Baiocchi on the citizens of Porto Alegre; James S. Fishkin on turning public opinion into policy; Josiah Ober on learning from Athens; John Gastil, Dan M. Kahan, and Donald Braman on ending polarization. Nir Rosen on the roots of sectarian violence in Iraq; Khaled Abou El Fadl on Osama bin Laden; Nick Bromell on why freedom isn't enough. Fiction by Deb Olin Unferth; review essays by James Hynes, Kurt Brown, Amy Newlove Schroeder, Joyelle McSweeney, and Dan Beachy-Quick. Alan A. Stone on Pride and Prejudice. Poems by Frank Bidart, Michelle Noteboom, Sarah Rosenthal, Anna Rabinowitz, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Matthew Zapruder, Mark Levine, Shane Book, Ben Doyle, and F. Daniel Rzicznek.

 

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January/February 2006
Inside: Exit Strategy. Barry R. Posen with Barbara K. Bodine, Joseph R. Biden Jr., Vivek Chibber, Russell D. Feingold, Randall Forsberg, Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis, Helena Cobban, Christopher Preble, Eliot Weinberger, and Nir Rosen. Jon D. Hanson and Adam Benforado on why the Supreme Court makes justices more liberal; John R. Bowen on France's riots; Dorothy Roberts on a world without race. Fiction by D.S. Sulaitis; review essays by Roger Boylan, Susan M. Schultz, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, and others. Alan A. Stone on Nine Lives. Poems by Ales Debeljak, C. Durning Carroll, Robley Evans, Joanna Klink, Catherine Knox, Ernest Hilbert, Thylias Moss, Peter Richards, and Dan Chelotti.

 

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