3/10/10: Boston Review named finalist in 2010 National Magazine Awards

Tom Barry’s
A Death in Texas is nominated in the Public Interest category.

The Obligation to Prosecute

Why we must prosecute the Bush administration officials who sanctioned torture.
Elaine Scarry

essays

Obama’s Chicago Tactics

Why top-down governing isn’t working in Washington.
Michael Gecan—Web only

Misunderstanding Darwin

Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.
Ned Block and Philip Kitcher

Nothing To Fear

Why Muslim immigration in Europe is no “clash of civilizations.”
John R. Bowen

All Bark, No Bite

Have Europe’s social democrats outlived their ideological usefulness?
Clay Risen

Counterinsurgency’s Comeback

Can a colonialist strategy be reinvented?
Nasser Hussain

Sidney Mintz and Colin Dayan
on Haitian history and the current crisis—Web only

The Big Bank Theory

How government helps financial giants get richer
Dean Baker

State of the Nation: the State of Boston

A mayoral election special
Stephen Ansolabehere

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul
Vivian Gornick

State of the Nation: the Supreme Court

What do Americans think about property, punishment, and privacy?
Stephen Ansolabehere

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Ryan Thoreson

Edit This Page

Wikipedia: what makes it work—and can it last?
Evgeny Morozov
Listen to Morozov on NPR’s Here & Now

Statement of Support for Iranian Universities (PDF)

More Essays

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fiction

Seven Little Stories About Sex—story

Eric Freeze

Wednesday Nights—memoir

Memories of “Tickle or Torture”
Vestal McIntyre

Everything is Breakable with a Big Enough Stone—story

Taryn Bowe

Fine By Me

Geoff Dyer’s unlikely terms of engagement
James Wallenstein

Last Wishes

Nabokov’s last request was the destruction, by fire, of the notes for the newly-published The Original of Laura.
Leland de la Durantaye

Hear the author on NPR’s On Point.

More Fiction & Fiction Essays

 Sites of interest: Personal Loans

News

BR’s Stephen Ansolabehere on “Why Old People Should Love Immigrants,” in The New York Times’s Economix blog.

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1983: The Eye of the Outsider
Adrienne Rich on Elizabeth Bishop and lesbian identity.
Adrienne Rich

1992: On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack
Eugene Rivers, with reponses by Glenn Loury, bell hooks, Cornel West, and Margaret Burnham.

2005: Reforming Health Care

More Archive Features

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The Jewish Question

The Coen brothers’ A Serious Man
Alan A. Stone

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Forums

Something from Nothing

A forum on strategy in Afghanistan with Nir Rosen, Helena Cobban, Andrew Exum, Andrew J. Bacevich, and others. Web-only responses by Rajan Menon and Richard W. Miller.

Investigative Special

A Death in Texas

Profits, poverty, and immigration converge
Tom Barry

Hear Tom Barry discuss the private prison boom in an Utne Reader podcast, or see him in a recent episode of Dan Rather Reports.

God, the Army, and PTSD

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?
Tara McKelvey

An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq
Nir Rosen

More Forums & Special Issues

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poetry

Lord, Hear My Voice

Bin Ramke’s Theory of Mind
Craig Morgan Teicher

Smothered to Smithereens

The poetics of motherhood
Stephen Burt

Microreviews

Roberto Bolaño
Filip Marinovich
Cal Bedient
Dobby Gibson
Charlie Smith

Poems

Poet’s Sampler: Christopher Kondrich
Introduced by Mark Strand

My Herculaneum
Jennifer Franklin

The Cake
Mark Irwin

Description of a Badly Drawn Horse
Daniel Johnson

Idyll and Vault
Alice Jones

The Engineer of Vertical Frontiers
Cathy Park Hong

Squill
Ange Mlinko

Prometheus
William Wadsworth

A Brief History of Spying and
A Brief History of Ghost Hunting
Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Martin Luther King Day—Web only
William Varner

More Poetry & Poetry Criticism