Boston Review
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Boston Review is a national political and literary magazine, published bimonthly by Boston Critic, Inc., a non profit organization. The magazine covers political debates, literature and poetry, and is a host to the New Democracy Forum and the New Fiction Forum. The editors are Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen.
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[edit] History
Boston Review was first published in 1975, with Margaret Ann Roth as the editor. Joshua Cohen replaced Roth in 1991. Deborah Chasman joined the editorial staff in 2001.
Boston Review has received praise from notable intellectuals like John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature . [1].
[edit] New Democracy Forum
The New Democracy Forum is a special feature of 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.
[edit] Eminent Contributors
- John Ashbery
- Saul Bellow
- John Berger
- Noam Chomsky
- Juan Cole
- Khaled Abou El Fadl
- Robert Frank
- J.K. Galbraith
- Jorie Graham
- Eva Hoffman
- Martha Nussbaum
- Grace Paley
- Rick Perlstein
- Adrienne Rich
- Susan Sontag
- Howard Zinn
