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Highlights from the January/February 2007 issue:



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CAN WE STOP GLOBAL WARMING?
Phaeton's Reins
The human hand in climate change
Kerry Emanuel

With proposals about what to do now by Nicholas Stern; David G. Victor and Danny Cullenward; Judy Layzer and William Moomaw; Jeffrey Logan, Joanna Lewis, and Michael B. Cummings; and Kirsten Oleson and Chandra Shekhar Sinha

ESSAYS
Truth, Lies, and Accountability
In search of justice for East Timor
Joseph Nevins

Orientalism Revisited
Edward Said's unfinished critique
Lawrence Rosen

Inside the Madrasa
A personal history
Ebrahim Moosa

The Beginning of Wisdom
On reading H.G. Wells    
Vivian Gornick

The Crucible
What's at stake in the sex-ed wars
Maureen N. McLane

PLUS: New poems by John Ashbery; Tanya Larkin on Kenneth Koch; Roger Boylan on John McGahern; fiction by Ivelisse Rodriguez; poetry criticism by Brian Teare and Joyelle McSweeney; poems by James Longenbach, Stephanie Cleveland, Travis Nichols, John Isles, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Rebecca Reynolds, Erica Bernheim, and Jynne Dilling Martin; Alan A. Stone reviews Stranger than Fiction; and more.

(Complete table of contents.)

 

Highlights from the November/December 2006 issue:


SPECIAL REPORT
Anatomy of a Civil War
Iraq's descent into chaos
Nir Rosen

ESSAYS
Rules of Engagement
Why military honor matters    
Elaine Scarry

The 33-Day War
Hizbullah's victory, Israel's choice
Helena Cobban

The Lesser Evil
Using American force wisely
Anatol Lieven

PLUS:  Charles Johnson on John Champlin Gardner; C.D. Wright introduces Marc Gaba, the winner of the ninth annual poetry contest; fiction by Madeline Kotowicz; poetry criticism by Susan Barba and Tom Thompson; poems by Stephanie Pippin, Noah Eli Gordon, Nick Admussen, Landis Everson, Joan Houlihan, Martha Ronk, and David Blair; Alan A. Stone reviews André Téchiné's Changing Times; and more.

(Complete table of contents.)

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IRAQ-WAR COVERAGE
Anatomy of a Civil War
Iraq's descent into chaos
by Nir Rosen

The Iraqi Shias
On the history of America's would-be allies
by Juan Cole

Iraq's Chaos
Why the insurgency won't go away
by Ahmed S. Hashim

Exit Strategy
How to disengage from Iraq in 18 months
by Barry Posen
with Sen. Joseph Biden, Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Vivek Chibber, Helena Cobban, Sen. Russell Feingold, Randall Forsberg, Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis, Christopher Preble, Nir Rosen, and Eliot Weinberger

On the Ground in Iraq
The roots of sectarian violence
by Nir Rosen

 

AWARDS
Utne Independent Press Awards Nominee

Boston Review has been nominated for a 2006 Utne Independent Press Award in the category of Best Writing.



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