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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

Literature & Culture

Announcing Boston Review’s new Arts in Society project

A radical revisioning of our creative writing programs.

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Year of the Rat

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

Zachary Tyler Vickers

Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Culture

“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

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White Coffins

2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Runner-Up

Abigail Rose

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Announcing the 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Congratulations to Neshat Khan!

Boston Review

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In the Dollhouse Underground

2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Runner-Up

Carolyn Byrne

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The Neighbors

2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Neshat Khan

Literature & Culture

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

Literature & Culture

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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The Recorder

2018 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest winner selected by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Herselman Hattingh

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