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Imagine Peace: Poems

Marie Syrkin, Values Beyond the Self by Carole S. Kessner






United by Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela

Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sánchez

In Caracas, the graffiti reads, “Kill a Zionist and Get Your Flour at Mercal.” Mercal is Venezuela’s government-sponsored food-distribution center, created by President Hugo Chávez.


Boston Review’s Summer Reading


Canceled

Winner of BR’s 16th Annual Fiction Contest
Jessica Treglia

Freedom

A Post-Guantánamo Story
Amy Waldman

Cyber-Scare

“The administration’s claims about cyber-security as a key national security problem could lead to policies with serious, long-term, troubling consequences for network openness and personal privacy.”
Evgeny Morozov


State of the Nation

Blaming “The Jews”

How has the Madoff scandal affected public perception of Jews and the financial crisis?
Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit

essays

A Simple Truth

Dispatch from the Hebron hills — web only
David Shulman

The Best Hope—Still?

Prospects for a two-state solution
Jeremy Pressman

Accidental Billionaire

Two recent books challenge the idea that individuals get what they deserve.
Claude S. Fischer

No Ordinary Success

Fix the school or fix the neighborhood? What we really need is both.
James Forman, Jr.

Malpractice

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

God’s Work

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

Obama’s Triangle

Policy wonks, patronage, and the possibilities of the grassroots—web exclusive
Michael Gecan

Where Liberals and Libertarians Part Company

BR’s co-editor on the pitfalls of “classical liberalism”—web exclusive
Joshua Cohen

A Tribe Apart

Afghan elites face a corrosive past
Barnett R. Rubin

More Essays


poetry

The New Thing

The new poems are, as critic Douglas Mao puts it, “faithful to the thing represented” and “thing in itself.”
Stephen Burt

The Fetch

Ciaran Carson's For All We Know
Piotr Florczyk

Boston Review/“Discovery” Contest Winners!

The 2009 Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize winners: Bridget Lowe, Jynne Dilling Martin, Jeffrey Schultz, and Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo.

Hear Jeffrey Schultz read his work at the NewsHour’s Art Beat blog.

More Poetry & Poetry Criticism


 Sites of interest: Personal Loans

Beating Bad Karma

Iran's crisis offers an opportunity for real change
Abbas Milani



Pious Populist — Abbas Milani on understanding the troubled career of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Common Cause — Abbas Milani on the role you can play in supporting Iranian democracy

A Third Way — Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani on normalizing relations between the U.S. and Iran

Half A Man — Akbar Ganji on Iran’s “gender apartheid”


Forums

Fixing Immigration Policy

The Case for Amnesty
Joseph Carens

With Web-only responses by
Alexander Aleinikoff, Marc Rosenblum, Roberto Suro, Carol M. Swain, Mae Ngai, and others.


How to Fix the Economy

Repairing the U.S. Economy

Free Market Myth
Dean Baker
No New Tax Cuts
Jeff Madrick
Tools for a New Economy
Robert Pollin


Closing Guantánamo

The problem of preventive detention
David Cole

With Web-only responses by
Joanne Mariner, Eric Posner and Robert Chesney

More Forums & Special Issues


Purple Gaze

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

Condemned

Stephen Daldry’s The Reader
Alan A. Stone


fiction

House of Men—story

A letter from Hawaii reveals an Indian family’s secrets.
Shivani Manghnani

Concerning the Correct Way to Make Cabbage—story

An Easter story
D.S. Sulaitis

The Collaborator

Patrick French’s extraordinary biography of V.S. Naipaul, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award.
James Wallenstein

More Fiction & Fiction Essays

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