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Junot Díaz on the Importance of Defending Free Thought

Junot Díaz talks to Avni Majithia-Sejpal about the importance of Boston Review as part of a

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A Special Message from BR Co-Editor Joshua Cohen

Trump's victory has spurred wakeful action throughout the U.S. and the world. Now more than

Fiction

Announcing the 2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Announcing 2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest winner, Mikayla Ávila Vilá.

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Poetry

“Lilies” for C. D. Wright (1949–2016)

A lyric tribute to the celebrated American poet, who passed in early January

Laynie Browne

Literature & Culture, Philosophy & Religion

Colin Dayan’s Ethics Without Reason

The new book "With Dogs at the Edge of Life" asks whether we need less humanity, not more of it.

Simon Waxman

Poetry

Boston Review's Top 20 Poems of 2015

Enjoy our most-read poetry of 2015

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Top 15 Articles of '15

Read our most-loved (and most-clicked) stories of the year.

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Politics, War & Security

Assassinating Terrorists Does Not Work

It creates more violent terrorists and leaves no one who can talk peace

Alex de Waal

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Boston Review at 40

A message from Editor Joshua Cohen.

Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Grandparents Today

Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner in Grandma.

Claude S. Fischer

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Thoreau’s Public Mind

The author of Walden was not an enemy of civic life.

Simon Waxman

Politics

The People's Technocracy

Smart Citizens, Smarter State Beth Simone Noveck Harvard University Press, $29.95

Andrew Mayersohn