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Arts in Society

The Country Without a Post Office

As news leaks of India’s forced communications blackout in Kashmir, the work of poet Agha Shahid Ali is tragically timely—both its depiction of Kashmiri suffering and the poet’s attempt to imagine a better future for his home.

Manan Kapoor

Arts in Society

Walt Whitman’s Boys

On the poet’s bicentennial, we will see praise for his political idealism and gauzy reclamations of him as an LGBT ancestor. But it remains difficult to talk about the connection he saw between patriotism and his love of young men.

Jeremy Lybarger

Arts in Society

Looking for Solidarity

The work of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud recalls a time when the two sides of the Caribbean island were united by their visions for an equal society.

Sophie Maríñez

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, Reading Lists

Writing the Twentieth Century

Poets, philosophers, playwrights. 

Rosie Gillies

Arts in Society

What Nature Online

These poems are urgent calls for rethinking our place on an imperiled planet.

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Arts in Society

The Unconscious of Earth

Brenda Hillman paves the way for an ecological occult.

Elizabeth Metzger

Arts in Society

Apocalypse

On Frederick Turner’s epics.

Robert Crossley

Arts in Society

Should We Talk About the Weather?

A foray into four famous poems.

Tim Wood

Arts in Society

Blockadia

Once in Blockadia Stephen Collis Talon Books, $18.95 (paper)  In the middle of Once in

Cassandra Cleghorn

Arts in Society

Dispatch in Two Parts: The Arab Body Writes Itself In

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

Marwa Helal

Arts in Society

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

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