Boston Review

2 weeks ago | bostonreview.net | Stuart Hall |Jordan T. Camp

June 12, 2025 In September 1974, at a protest in London, Stuart Hall delivered a speech in support of fellow Caribbean-born radical intellectual Walter Rodney. After being offered a professorship at the University of Guyana, Rodney had resigned from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to accept the job.

1 month ago | bostonreview.net | Deborah Chasman |Joshua Cohen

Dear Reader,The first issue of Boston Review appeared in June 1975. The magazine was then called New Boston Review, published by a small nonprofit and focused on literature and the arts. Vol. 1, No. 1 was 32 pages and sold for 75 cents, in tabloid format, with Susan Sontag in the front and classifieds in the back. In 1991, with New gone from the name, the magazine took a sharp editorial turn. Politics had always been in our pages, but we resolved it would now be our beating heart.

Mar 21, 2025 | bostonreview.net | Debbie Nathan

An immigrant to the United States with a green card walks into his apartment building. Homeland Security agents enter, handcuff him, whisk him into detention hundreds of miles away, and present him with papers for his removal from the country. Then the government makes a public statement: the man hasn’t broken any laws, yet he’s still deportable. What happened to former Columbia University student and Palestine rights activist Mahmoud Khalil has rightly alarmed many indignant Americans.

Mar 20, 2025 | bostonreview.net | Noam Chomsky |Nathan J. Robinson

Every ruling power tells itself stories to justify its rule. Nobody is the villain in their own history. Professed good intentions and humane principles are a constant.

Mar 10, 2025 | bostonreview.net | Simon Torracinta |Brent Cebul |Lily Geismer |Dylan Gottlieb

Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays, Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, published by University of Chicago Press. A full video of the event is below. The transcript that follows is of the second half of the event, with moderated discussion. It has been lightly edited for clarity.