A Political and Literary Forum

Menu Search
Donate Shop Join

Criticism

Literature & Culture

Haneke and the Technology of Intimacy

‘Happy End’ is the culmination of Haneke’s obsession with how technology mediates our desires.

Francey Russell

Poetry

Manacled to a Whelm

Jorie Graham’s Fast marks the fraught presence of an environmentally inclined writer whose most immediate environment, the body, confronts a foreclosed future.

Cecily Parks

Poetry

A Poetics of Ghosting

Aaron Beasley interviews Rodrigo Toscano

Rodrigo Toscano, Aaron Beasley

Science & Nature

Headset Hypocrisy

By the 2020 election, the market for virtual reality is projected to increase twentyfold. That's great news for VR's proponents who relish the technology's persuasive powers, but what does it mean for those inside the headset? 

John Tinnell

Literature & Culture

A Postcard from Ursula

A science fiction writer remembers his early correspondences with Ursula Le Guin.

John Crowley

Poetry

Casserole Brigades and Corporate America

With Proprietary, Randall Mann comes into his own as a poet of wit and cynicism.

Daniel T. O’Brien

Politics

The Disillusionment of Post-Soviet Europe

To understand why Europe seems more balkanized now than ever, we must look to Eastern Europe's failed reconstruction.

Marta Figlerowicz

Race

‘Black Panther’ Is Not the Movie We Deserve

Black Panther, a movie unique for its black star power, depends on a shocking devaluation of black American men.

Christopher Lebron

Poetry

Callimachus in Jelly Shoes

Burt’s latest collection reveals a poet looking back to formative moments in the 1980s when poetry first began to offer succor, and a playlist, for the fact of our weightful existence.

Nicholas D. Nace

Poetry

Undoing a Long Erasure

A new collected works of Marianne Moore restores many poems to better versions lost in subsequent editions.

Christopher J. Adamson

Literature & Culture

Dulltopia

The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.

Mark Bould

Literature & Culture

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

Henry Farrell

Sign Up for Our Newsletter

Vital reading on politics, literature, and more in your inbox

Love Boston Review?

Then you’ll love our new membership program! Join us to support engaged discussion on critical issues. You’ll also enjoy exclusive membership benefits.
Get Started

Copyright © 1993-2018 Boston Review and its authors.

Support Boston Review

Become a Member

Make a tax-deductible donation today

Boston Review Printing Note: For best printing results try turning on any options your web browser's print dialog makes available for printing backgrounds and background graphics.