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Poetry Hot and Cold
Myung Mi Kim and Leland Hickman represent two poles of modern American poetry, one untouched by form, the other drenched in it.
Clear and Hold
Roberta Grandes Gratz’s The Battle for Gotham
Casey Walker
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BR Editor Joshua Cohen debates Fox’s James Pinkerton on the controversy surrounding a proposed mosque near “Ground Zero.”
essays
State of the Nation
Early and often: How good are state
voter-registration files?
Stephen Ansolabehere and Eitan Hersh
Mind the Gap
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s The Spirit Level
Claude S. Fischer
The War for Drugs
How Juárez became the world’s
deadliest city
Sarah Hill
Sharing Liberally
Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus
Evgeny Morozov
Man of Principle
The passions of Arthur Koestler
Roger Boylan
Ending the Endless War
Will Colombia’s democracy survive the violence?
Luis Fernando Medina
Dreaming of a Free Iran
Akbar Ganji accepts the Friedman Prize
Akbar Ganji, translated by
Hamid Dabashi—Web only
Kingpin
Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet
Alan A. Stone
A New Start
Nuclear disarmament, and the prospects for Obama’s “Global Zero”
Tara McKelvey
Speak, Memory
Can digital storage remember for you?
Evgeny Morozov
Sites of interest: Personal Loans
Forums
Mothers Who Care Too Much
A forum on feminism and mothering with Nancy J. Hirschmann. Responses from Anne L. Alstott, Melody Berger, Mona Harrington, Robin West, Lisa Dodson, and others. Hirschmann responds.
Big Pharma, Bad Medicine
With Marcia Angell and responses from Adriane Fugh-Berman, Howard Brody, David Bollier, and others. Thomas P. Stossel on the value of academic-industry relationships. A letter from Frank Britt and Marissa Seligman.
poetry
Everlasting Life and Particular Flight
John Deming
Before History
Harry Clifton’s Secular Eden
Alissa Valles
What If There Is a Person
Steve Healey
In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys
Mary Austin Speaker
Love Poem
Sophie Cabot Black
Zero Hour
Kristine Ong Muslim
In The Golden Age of Counterfeitting
Christopher Salerno
Slumming
Daniel Tiffany’s Infidel Poetics
Joyelle McSweeney
Good Girls/Bad Girls
Judy Smith McDonough
Called Into Being
Charles Bernstein’s All The Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems
Richard Deming
Crows, Too, Have a Means of Purring and They Have Built a Public Fountain
Anthony Madrid
Poet’s Sampler: Lynn Xu
Introduced by Ben Lerner
False Documents
Nicole Walker
After Visiting Hours
Leon Weinmann
More Poetry & Poetry Criticism
1988: Ha Jin writes poetry for the “makers of history” and those who tell the truth. Poet’s sampler, introduction by Allen Grossman.
BR Footnote:
Boston Review’s intern blog
About a boy (03/23/10)
Are humans too bad to act justly? (03/23/10)
A Cause for Celebration at Boston Review! (03/10/10)
Putting Out Fires, Starting New Ones (03/3/10)
In Lebanon, history on repeat (02/24/10)
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