Browse our archive of print issues below, back to our founding in 1975.
November/December 2008
Adapting to Climate Change
Michael D. Mastrandrea and Stephen H. Schneider on adapting to climate change; Martha Nussbaum on grief and Justice; Richard Stallman is no fan of One Laptop Per Child; William Hogeland delves into the public history of the Constituton.
South Asian political novels; listening to Jack Spicer.
September/October 2008
Is There Enough Food and Water?
Frank Rijsberman on water scarcity; Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon on the food crisis; Elaine Scarry argues for prosecuting Bush administration torturers.
Roger Boylan reads the literature of Ireland's "Troubles"; Robert von Hallberg on war poems; Colin Dayan on Aimé Césaire.
July/August 2008
After Prison
After Prison: Bruce Western on reentry; Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Mary Lyndon Shanley on incarcerated fathers; Robert Perkinson on the history of the prison boom. Andrew Bacevich on the boken pentagon; Elias Khoury on justice in Palestine.
Marjorie Perloff on Vladimir Mayakovsky; Charles Bernstein reviews Alan Filreis; poems by John Koethe and Allan Peterson.
May/June 2008
Is It Africa's Turn?
In the forum, Edward Miguel is optimistic about growth in Africa. Olu Ajakaiye, Paul Collier, Rachel Glennerster, and others respond.
William Hogeland on Pete Seeger and William F. Buckley; Zakes Mda on South African fiction; Patricia Engel's contest-winning short story; Maureen McLane on Emily Dickinson, post-9/11; poems by Barbara Claire Freeman and D.A. Powell.
March/April 2008
Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It: How to the meet the security threat
Jonathan Zittrain leads a forum on the balance between security and freedom on the Internet, with responses from Richard Stallman, Bruce Owen, Susan Crawford, and others.
John Rawls on baseball, the best of all games; Michael Gecan on suburban decline; a short story by Dagoberto Gilb; Stephen Burt reviews Laura Kasischke; Katie Peterson on Robert Hass.
January/February 2008
Ending Urban Poverty
Reporting from the Middle East, Nir Rosen investigates the growth of al Qaeda in Lebanon; ending urban poverty, with Dalton Conley, Patrick Sharkey, and Stefanie DeLuca.
Pranab Bardhan on myths of Chinese and Indian growth; Vivian Gornick on Hannah Arendt; Dimiter Kenarov on Bulgarian literature; two poems by Tomaž Šalamun.
November/December 2007
Ahmadinejad's Iran
Abbas Milani and Akbar Ganji on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; William Hogeland explores the troubling embrace of Alexander Hamilton; Colin Dyan on prisoners' right to read.
A short story by Charles Johnson; Elizabeth Willis wins the tenth annual poetry contest; criticism by Reginald Shepherd; a poem by John Updike.
September/October 2007
Boston Review Issue
Owen Fiss, Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Jenny Martinez on international criminal courts; Nir Rosen examines the plight of displaced Iraqis.
Fiction by K. J. Bishop; poems by Mary Jo Bang and Roberto Bolaño; Alan Stone reviews Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn.