Boston Review

Infobox Magazine
title = Boston Review


image_size = 175px
image_caption = July/August 2006 Issue
publisher = Boston Critic, Inc.
circulation = ~10,000
frequency = bimonthly
language = American English
category = politics, literature, culture
editor = Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
editor_title = Editors
firstdate = 1975
country = flag|United States
website = [http://www.bostonreview.net/ http://www.bostonreview.net]
issn =

The "Boston Review" is a bimonthly national political and literary magazine. The magazine covers, specifically, political debates, literature and poetry, and serves as host to the New Democracy Forum and the New Fiction Forum. The editors are Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen. The magazine is published by Boston Critic, Inc., a nonprofit organization, and run out of Somerville, Massachusetts.

History

The "Boston Review" was founded as the "New Boston Review" in 1975. A quarterly devoted to literature and the arts, the magazine was started by a group that included Juan Alonso, Richard Burgin, and Anita Silvey. In 1976, after the departure of some of the founding editors, the publication was co-edited by Juan Alonso and Gail Pool, and then by Gail Pool and Lorna Condon. In the late seventies, it switched from quarterly to bimonthly publication. In 1980, Arthur Rosenthal became publisher of the magazine, which was re-named "Boston Review" and edited by Nick Bromell. Succeeding editors were Mark Silk and then Margaret Ann Roth, who remained until 1991.

During the eighties, the focus of the magazine broadened and during the nineties became more politically oriented, while maintaining a strong profile in both fiction and poetry.

Joshua Cohen replaced Roth in 1991, and has been editor since then. The full text "Boston Review" has been available online since 1995. Since 1996, twenty-six books have been published based on articles and forums that originally appeared in the "Boston Review". Since 2006, MIT Press has been publishing a "Boston Review" Books" series.

Deborah Chasman joined the magazine as co-editor in 2001. Pulitzer-prize winner Junot Diaz is the fiction editor; Timothy Donnelly and Benjamin Paloff are the poetry editors; and Neil Gordon is the literary editor. Simon Waxman is the managing editor and art director.

The publication has received praise from notable intellectuals like John Rawls and Henry Louis Gates, Jr..

The publication sponsors well-regarded annual contests in both fiction and poetry. Past winners of the fiction contest include Michael Dorris, Tom Paine, and Jacob M. Appel.

New Democracy Forum

The [http://bostonreview.net/ndf.html New Democracy Forum] is a special feature of the "Boston Review". It offers an arena for fostering and exploring issues regarding politics and policy. A typical forum includes a lead article by an expert and contributions from other respondents. Past forums have covered topics such as making foreign aid work, a strategy to disengage from Iraq, and new economic stress in the middle class.

Eminent Contributors

* Bruce Ackerman, professor of law
* Sadik Al-Azm, philosopher
* John Ashbery, poet
* Saul Bellow, novelist
* Seyla Benhabib, philosopher and political scientist
* John Berger, artist, writer, and critic
* Hans Blix, diplomat, UN weapons inspector
* Lucie Brock-Broido, poet
* Noam Chomsky, linguist and political activist
* Juan Cole, historian
* Paul Collier, economist
* Khaled Abou El Fadl, professor of law
* Kerry Emanuel, meteorologist
* Owen Fiss, professor of law
* Robert Frank, photographer and filmmaker
* J.K. Galbraith, economist
* Akbar Ganji, journalist
* Vivian Gornick, essayist and critic
* Jorie Graham, poet
* Lani Guinier, professor of law
* Eva Hoffman, writer and academic
* Michael Kremer, economist
* Jhumpa Lahiri, novelist
* Glenn Loury, economist
* Deborah Meier, educational theorist
* Samuel Menashe, poet
* Thylias Moss, poet, children's writer, and playwright
* Martha Nussbaum, philosopher
* Susan Okin, feminist political philosopher
* Grace Paley, writer and activist
* Marjorie Perloff, literary scholar
* Rick Perlstein, historian and political commentator
* John Rawls, philosopher
* John Roemer, economist
* Adrienne Rich, feminist poet
* Juliet Schor, sociologist
* Charles Simic, Poet Laureate of the United States
* Elaine Scarry, literary critic
* Susan Sontag, essayist
* Richard Stallman, software developer
* Nicholas Stern, economist
* Alan A. Stone, professor of law, psychologist, and film critic
* Cass Sunstein, professor of law
* Judith Jarvis Thomson, philosopher
* Charles Tilly, sociologist
* John Updike, writer
* Hal Varian, economist
* Eliot Weinberger, essayist and translator
* Stephen Walt, international affairs scholar
* C.D. Wright, poet
* Howard Zinn, historian and social critic
* Jonathan Zittrain, professor of law

External links

* [http://www.bostonreview.net "Boston Review"'s website]
* [http://bostonreview.net/archives.html Past Issues of "Boston Review"]