Boston Review's July/August 2006 Issue

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.

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. Joshua Cohen, born in 1980 in Southern New Jersey, is a novelist and writer of short stories. ...

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]. John Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, and The Law of Peoples. ... A Theory of Justice is a book of political and moral philosophy by John Rawls. ... Henry Louis Skip Gates Jr. ...

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.

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

John Ashbery John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. ... Bellow as depicted in his Nobel diploma. ... John Peter Berger (b. ... Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Juan R. I. Cole is a Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History in the History Department at the University of Michigan. ... Robert Franks noted book, The Americans Robert Frank (b. ... John Kenneth Galbraith (born October 15, 1908) is something of an iconoclast among North American economists: he is an old-fashioned Keynesian with progressive values and a gift for writing accessible, popular books on economic topics in which he takes delight in describing ways in which economic theory does not... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Eva Wydra Hoffman is a writer and academic. ... Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher, with a particular interest in ancient philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. ... Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 - ) is an American short story writer, poet, and political activist whose work has won a number of awards. ... Rick Perlstein is a political commentator for the Village Voice and popular historian. ... Image:AdrienneRich. ... Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was a well-known American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker and activist. ... Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian and political scientist. ...

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