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Defending Free Thought

Junot Díaz talks to Avni Majithia-Sejpal about the importance of Boston Review as part of a holistic intellectual and political education.

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A Special Message from BR Co-Editor Joshua Cohen

You can depend on Boston Review to provide open debate, guided by reason and supported by evidence.

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.

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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

But do transparency and smarter government have the power to effect major changes?

Andrew Mayersohn