Fiction

Arts in Society

Return to the Gay Underground

Dennis Cooper became famous in the 1980s for his transgressive fiction about marginalized men. A new biography makes a case for what his works can offer readers now, in our era of deep suffering and infuriating indifference.

David B. Hobbs

Arts in Society

Announcing the 2020 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner and Finalists

Congratulations to Yeoh Jo-Ann!

Boston Review

Arts in Society

Adora

An aging AI researcher, alone with her robot companion, must make a difficult decision when the android begins to malfunction. Short Story

Sumudu Samarawickrama

Arts in Society

Arts in the Time of Quarantine

A Special Project from Boston Review’s Arts in Society Program

Arts in Society

The Private History of Ethiopia’s Wars

Maaza Mengiste’s novels reject grand narratives, instead offering uncommonly intimate glimpses of what it was like to live through the century of war and dictatorship that created today’s Ethiopian diaspora.

Adom Getachew

Arts in Society

László Krasznahorkai’s Catastrophic Harmonies

The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.

Holly Case

Arts in Society

To the Fordham

In a pre-Giuliani New York where pornographic theaters create communities of dissimilar people, a young blue-collar worker and a homeless ex-con forge a connection through their shared enjoyment of public sex.

Samuel R. Delany

Arts in Society

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

Congratulations to Sabrina Helen Li!

Boston Review

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.

Boston Review

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