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Our Top 21 Essays of 2020

To ring in 2021, here are Boston Review's top 21 essays of the year.

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Our Top Essays of 2019

From Walt Whitman to Arundhati Roy, here are the essays that were read the most over the past twelve months.

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Our Most-Loved Essays of 2018

A countdown of the top ten.

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Our Top Ten Essays on Politics in 2017

From Trump to global populism, political upheaval has dominated our lives this year. Here are our top ten political stories from 2017.

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Boston Review's Top 20 Poems of 2015

Enjoy our most-read poetry of 2015

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Top 15 Articles of '15

Read our most-loved (and most-clicked) stories of the year.

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Boston Review's Top Articles of 2014

Read our most-loved (and most-clicked) stories of the year.

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Boston Review's 13 Top Articles of 2013

Take a look back at what our readers loved this year.

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