On April 18 the new president of Columbia University and the previous director of London School of Economics, Minouche Shafik, called the New York Police Department to have Columbia students arrested ...

The time has come,” she wrote, “to think about queering the state.” A “record for antigay initiatives in the United States” was set in 1994, she observed—“part of a grander scheme to organize a ...

“For me all that took place in Vietnam was inseparable from Hiroshima,” wrote the American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton in his 2011 memoir, Witness to an Extreme Century. He was referring to the ...

laughing at how strong he still is. When the darkness is almost complete, he sits up & recites his last poem. When I lived, it begins, in Shuj’aiyya, in Gaza, when I took the train to Jerusalem & back ...

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That’s what sociologist Alondra Nelson says of Boston Review.Independent and nonprofit, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. That’s why there ...

Suzanne Gardinier is the author of several poetry collections. Gardinier’s poetry has been included in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1989) and Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets ...

Ari Ne’eman is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard University. He co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in 2006 and served as its executive director from 2006 to 2016. From 2010 to ...

That’s what sociologist Alondra Nelson says of Boston Review.Independent and nonprofit, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. That’s why there ...

That’s what sociologist Alondra Nelson says of Boston Review.Independent and nonprofit, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. That’s why there ...