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Meeting the Demand


Every Last Drop

Managing our way out of the water crisis.
Frank R. Rijsberman

Our Daily Bread

Without public investment, the food crisis will only get worse.
Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon


What is the Bush Doctrine and why does it matter?

Neta Crawford

The place of religion in public life

Michael Gecan
Albert J. Raboteau
Catherine Tumber

Electoral process reform

Heather Gerken and others

On abortion rights

Judith Thomson

On the issues: Election 08

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The Treacherous Medium


Why Photography Critics Hate Photography
Susie Linfield

essays

Presidential Crimes

Moving on is not an option
Elaine Scarry

History Matters

Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians
Joseph Levine

The Party's Over

A review of Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam's Grand New Party
Lew Daly

"They woke up in a rage."

An interview with Vivian Gornick on Philip Roth, feminism and her new book,
The Men In My Life
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Outside the Big Box

Who speaks for today's small businesses?
Nicole D. Kazee, Michael Lipsky,
and Cathie Jo Martin

Response from the President of the National Small Business Association
Todd O. McCracken

Bolt from the Blue

The promise and problems of Obama's faith-based plan
Lew Daly

The Gunslinger

John Bolton's Surrender is Not an Option
Stephen J. Stedman

Fault Lines

Inside Rumsfeld's Pentagon
Andrew J. Bacevich

From Theocracy to Democracy

Akbar Ganji's hopes for Iran
Interviewed by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history
William Hogeland

Breakout

Hamas and the end of the two-state solution
Helena Cobban
Read Cobban's June 26 interview with Mother Jones

The Unending War

Argentina's quest for justice
Sam Ferguson

The Bitter End

Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism
Kevin Mattson

On Borrowed Time

Urban decline moves to the suburbs
Michael Gecan

The Best of All Games

In a letter to a colleague, John Rawls reflects on baseball
John Rawls

More Essays

poetry

Poets and the People

Reflections on solidarity during wartime
Robert von Hallberg

Out of Defeat

Aimé Césaire's miraculous words
Colin Dayan

The Crucified Hand

Frank Bidart's Watching the Spring Festival
Raymond McDaniel

Poet's Sampler: Ashley Capps

Introduced by Graham Foust

SPIT AND IMAGE

A Web-only special
Ashley Capps

First Counter–clockwise Canto of the Moebius Strip

John Kinsella

Acorn Duly Crushed

Heather Christle

When the President is Black

Marlys West

Elegy

Bruce Bond

Hwan’s Condition

James Shea

Exit Ovidian

Dean Young

The Mosquito Monocracy

Adam O. Davis

And I Do Desire Your Looking Back

’Annah Sobelman

It Never Goes Away

Sophie Cabot Black

Microreviews

Door to a Noisy Room
Feral
Tendril
The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century
     Poetry and Adolescence

The Hot Garment of Love Is Insecure

More Poetry & Poetry Criticism

fiction

Imagining the Enemy

A series of articles exploring fiction's potential as a tool of social and political analysis in today's complex world. Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Wordwatchingstory

"Some jog, breasts and buttocks jiggling. Some treadmill, some bicycle . . . M. does word exercises."
Gay James

The End of Sexual Identity

The death and afterlife of the "gay novel"
Stacy D'Erasmo

We Laughed, We Cried

Flann O'Brien's Triumph
Roger Boylan

Gonestory

"Mirabelle and I began collecting the names of the dead girls in December. . ."
Danielle Lazarin

The Mirror

Imagining justice in Palestine
Elias Khoury

Justify the Enemy

Becoming human in South Africa
Zakes Mda

Desalientostory

The winner of Boston Review's 15th annual fiction contest
Patricia Engel

The Last Time I Saw Juniorstory

Dagoberto Gilb

More Fiction & Fiction Essays

After Prison

A special issue on incarcerated America

Reentry

Reversing mass imprisonment
Bruce Western

No Further Harm

Mary F. Katzenstein and Mary L. Shanley

Guarded Hope

Robert Perkinson


Is It Africa's Turn?

Progress in the world's poorest region
Edward Miguel

With responses by Robert Bates, Ken Banks, Olu Ajakaiye , Rosamond Naylor, David N. Weil, Jeremy M. Weinstein, Smita Singh, Paul Collier, and Rachel Glennerster; Miguel responds


Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It

How to meet the security threat
Jonathan Zittrain

With responses by Bruce M. Owen, Richard Stallman, Susan Crawford, David D. Clark, Roger A. Grimes, and Hal Varian; Zittrain responds

See Zittrain's appearance on The Colbert Report

Ending Urban Poverty

Introduction

What makes a troubled neighborhood?
Dalton Conley

The Inherited Ghetto

Patrick Sharkey

Neighborhood Matters

Stefanie DeLuca


Nukes, Democracy, and Iran

The View from Tehran

Akbar Ganji

Nuclear Freeze

Hans Blix

Carrots and Sticks

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R. Nicholas Burns

A Third Way

Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani

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