What people are saying about BR

“Boston Review operates at a level of literacy and responsibility which is all too rare in our time.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith, author of The Good Society

“Boston Review is a feast of the mind, at once intellectually provocative, literary, and unpretentious.”
—Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams

“Always challenging, always provocative, Boston Review brings a fresh and insightful perspective to the literature and politics of a multicultural age.”
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

“Boston Review is both lively and serious about ideas, politics, and the arts. It manages to convey the sense that there are things to discuss, and the discussion is actually there.”
—Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate in Economics

“Boston Review has an almost ferocious commitment to issues—not just debating them, but exploring their root systems. Free-spoken, intelligent, and 180 degrees from the soundbite mentality that governs most writing on controversial subjects.”
—Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies

“Boston Review is an outstanding magazine.”
—David Lehman, series editor of The Best American Poetry

“Its essays and reviews are intellectually rigorous and reflect a very wide variety of positions and tastes. It covers contemporary poetry as carefully as it discusses the most pressing political issues of the day. No other current journal has its range and consistently high quality.”
—Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein’s Ladder

“Boston Review is a place where American prose feels exact and alive. It is one of the three or four American journals that makes me feel we have a culture.”
—Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States, 1995–97

“Boston Review offers some of the most penetrating and challenging cultural commentary, political discussion, and social analysis to be found anywhere in the United States. It is a must read.”
—Randall Kennedy, author of Race, Crime, and the Law

“Boston Review is sustenance for intelligent life on Earth. It is remarkable for the range and quality of its fare, from poetry to philosophy, somehow never losing touch with the practical political concerns that are the spark of its life.”
—Frank I. Michelman, author of Brennan and Democracy

“The most stimulating feature, to me, is the collection of responses from thinkers which follows a controversial article. These responses illuminate all facets of an argument and create active thought in the reader. There can be no higher result, in this era of passive consumption.”
—Helen Vendler, author of The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

“Boston Review’s approach to poetry is truly unique and magnificent. . . . I thank you dearly every time I open your pages.”
—Jorie Graham, chancellor of the American Academy of Poets and MacArthur Fellow

“Boston Review is a jewel; it contains serious discussion at the highest level of pressing issues in economics, politics, and political philosophy, as well as of art and literature. Don’t miss it!”
—John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice

“Boston Review is one of the few places today where serious discussion of our political alternatives is flourishing. An antidote to complacence and conventional wisdom, it offers hope of revitalizing American political debate.”
—Michael Sandel, author of Democracy’s Discontent

“America is a big country, and Boston Review is one of the two or three best intellectual and political publications we have.”
—Charles Simic, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet

“Boston Review is one of a kind. It provides a thoughtful forum for in-depth (but highly readable) debate on new directions.”
—Gar Alperovitz, president of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives and author of Atomic Diplomacy


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