Boston Review

The Chinese cook who saved my dad’s restaurant

My Jewish father ran a dying restaurant in New Jersey -- but everything changed when he swapped cuisines

Sidney W. Mintz, Boston Review Topics: Boston Review, Food, Judiasm, Chinese Food, New Jersey

The New Yorker staff writer discusses the dangers of narrative simplification and the role of literary reportage

Cécile Alduy, Boston Review Topics: Journalism, The New Yorker, Boston Review, Philip Gourevitch, Rwanda, Literary Reportage

The story of war is always a tale of elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal and the poor

Chris Hedges, Boston Review 78 Topics: Boston Review, Conflict, Inequality, Politics, U.S. Economy

An interview with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Junot Díaz

Paula M.L. Moya, Boston Review Topics: Boston Review, Writers and Writing, Books, Fiction, Racism