Announcing Boston Review’s new Arts in Society project
Since its founding in 1975, Boston Review has been deeply committed to poetry and fiction, featuring some of the most innovative and distinguished voices of our time. Reflecting this, we are initiating...
View ArticleAppendix 15, Number 2. The Agent Probii Exploration
When discovery was made of this planet—the ninth one to which the iotafying machines had sent survivors, millennia ago—the first thing we did was to confirm that its inhabitants were in fact human....
View ArticleAnnouncing the Fall 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner and Finalists
Congratulations to Sabrina Helen Li, whose story “Mother, Grow My Baby” was selected by judge Yvonne Adhimabo Owuor as the winner of the Fall 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest! About the story,...
View ArticleTo the Fordham
This short story is featured in Boston Review’s new print issue Allies. Order A Copy Today
View ArticleLászló Krasznahorkai’s Catastrophic Harmonies
Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie MulzetNew Directions Press, $29.95 (cloth)“Power,” wrote the political theorist Hannah Arendt, “always comes...
View ArticleThe Private History of Ethiopia’s Wars
The Shadow KingMaaza MengisteW.W. Norton, $26.95 (cloth)
View ArticleArts in the Time of Quarantine
Boston Review has a longstanding commitment to showing that the arts provide indispensable insight into the most pressing issues of our time. Our readers rely on valuable resources such as the New York...
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Announcing the 2020 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner and Finalists
Congratulations to Yeoh Jo-Ann, whose story “Dog Tiger Horse” was selected by judge Ivelisse Rodriguez as the winner of the 2020 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest! About Yeoh’s winning story, Rodriguez...
View ArticleReturn to the Gay Underground
Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis CooperDiarmuid HesterUniversity of Iowa Press, $39.95 (paperback)
View ArticleWriting Our Ancestors
On March 11, Harvard Book Store’s virtual author series and Boston Review welcomed celebrated writers Sonia Sanchez (Robert Frost Medal), Tyehimba Jess (Pulitzer Prize), and Domenica Ruta (New York...
View ArticlePetra Kelly and the Radical Green Past
Petra Shaena LambertRandom House Canada, CAD$22.95 (paper)
View ArticleBinguni!
This story is featured in Boston Review’s new book, Ancestors.Order A Copy Today
View ArticleCelebrating Binyavanga Wainaina’s Fiction
Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina (1971–2019) was among the greatest of his generation. A winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, in the final decade of his life he had become as well a...
View Article‘Ancestors’ Contributors Reading
To celebrate the release of Boston Review's annual Arts in Society issue, Ancestors, we hosted a digital reading from contributors, featuring poetry, fiction, memoir, and essays.
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