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Editors' Note

Announcing the Fall 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner and Finalists

Congratulations to Sabrina Helen Li!

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Arts in Society

Appendix 15, Number 2. The Agent Probii Exploration

“Agent Probii’s first days as undercover agent were particularly disconcerting because within the city each resident spoke a different language.” 

Yuri Herrera

Arts in Society

Announcing Boston Review’s new Arts in Society project

A radical revisioning of our creative writing programs.

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Arts in Society

Year of the Rat

“I wish you had those pills to help. Remember those?”

Zachary Tyler Vickers

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

“More Queer Writing, Please”

Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is being celebrated as the vanguard of a new trans lit. In this interview, Lawlor talks about Paul’s origins, trans identity, and the future of queer literature.

Andrea Lawlor, Spencer Quong

Arts in Society

The Neighbors

The Spring 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Neshat Khan

Arts in Society

White Coffins

2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Runner-Up

Abigail Rose

Arts in Society

Announcing the Spring 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Congratulations to Neshat Khan!

Boston Review

Arts in Society

In the Dollhouse Underground

2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Runner-Up

Carolyn Byrne

Arts in Society

Dystopia Is Everywhere

Hye-young Pyun’s surreal, violent novels reject stereotypes about Korean women’s writing, taking up global themes of environmental collapse and the loneliness of city life.

Jae Won Chung

Reading Lists

Award-Winning Short Stories

Man Booker nominees and more got their start at Boston Review.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Arts in Society

Rewriting Poland

Novelist Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Booker International Prize, presents a multicultural Poland, to the ire of the Polish far-right.

Marta Figlerowicz

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