For Lucie Brock-Broido, there was a ‘real’ more profound than the quotidian. She believed that language could illuminate whatever was beneath the ordinary. For those who didn’t know her, and now never ...

That is: truth without reconciliation. Disputed Pasts rejects a simple casting of the role of memory in which the left ...

The race to commercialize the Internet is over, and advertising is the big winner. This is excellent news if you are an executive or major shareholder of one of the handful of companies that dominate ...

The cautious merchant and the keen manufacturer were equally unable to resist the speculation. It spread among them like a leprosy. It ruined alike the innocent and the guilty. It periled many a ...

Police violence is only the enforcement arm of a system of racial domination and racial capitalism that was with us at the beginning of American history. Here you can find the story of how black ...

In late 2024, the world watched with a mix of hope and disbelief as opposition forces in Syria finally toppled Bashar al-Assad, ending more than fifty years of rule by the Assad family. Images of ...

In 1972 the socialist left swept to power in Jamaica. Calling for the strengthening of workers’ rights, the nationalization of industries, and the expansion of the island’s welfare state, the People’s ...

The Arab uprisings of the last decade—and similar protest movements in Iran and Turkey—have given way to counterrevolution, authoritarian retrenchment, and state failure across much of the Middle East ...

This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the Black Community ...

“She would sit upright in her bed and recall the moment she saw Aisha’s face.” An Iraqi émigré explains to a New York doctor why she has enrolled in a study for a new antidepressant.

You asked me to write an essay to accompany your book, The Return, and gave me one rule. “Don’t discuss the photographs.” You told me: “I want people to see the images on their own terms.” This essay ...

After reports concerning Junot Díaz, Boston Review’s fiction editor, came to light last month, we dug deeply into the accounts and reached out to women writers of color in the literary community. On ...