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Curators

May 29, 2012

Vollmer's Future Missionaries

In “Keeper of the Flame,” featured in the current issue, Matthew Vollmer takes a disturbing excursion:

My father glanced over his shoulder at me and emitted a wheeze-burst of laughter—an exhalation intended to express disbelief. He had led me to an underground vault containing the artifacts of the last century’s most brutal regime, and he now seemed downright giddy. I, on the other hand, didn’t know what to think or what to say. I found it difficult to process what any of this meant. That is, I didn’t know why it was here, how it had gotten from where it had been made to where it was now. Were we in the presence of some kind of monster? Or had he created this space for stuff he deemed historically significant, buried it in a moisture-controlled vault because he fancied himself one of history’s unbiased curators? Was this the product of an obsessive and sympathetic mind, one which interpreted the mainstream records of history as having been unduly cruel to the Third Reich, which had been a movement, in his eyes, about nationalism, about ancestors, about revering and honoring the past? I didn’t know. And, honestly, I was afraid to ask.

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Filed Under: Nonfiction Tagged With: Keeper of the Flame, Matthew Vollmer, NER 33.1

New issue of New England Review

May 21, 2012

The new issue of New England Review has just shipped from the printer, and a sample is available here on our website. In these pages, you’ll find new stories by Brock Clarke, Castle Freeman Jr., William Gilson, Jane Ratcliffe, and Christine Sneed, appearing alongside new poems by Beverly Burch, Victoria Chang, Caleb Curtiss, Jeff Friedman, Debora Greger, Shara Lessley, John Lundberg, Matthew Nienow, C. L. O’Dell, Carl Phillips, Adrienne Su, and Valerie Wohlfeld. In nonfiction, Joseph Fruscione examines the long-term rivalry of Faulkner and Hemingway, Francis-Noël Thomas reflects on tea and its implications, and Paul Plagens recalls his time in the L.A. County jail’s “ding tank.” Also in nonfiction, historian Richard J. Smith traces the westward movement of the I Ching, Matthew Vollmer visits a collector of Nazi paraphernalia, Karen Holmberg muses about bird song and the human voice, and Goethe makes his way to Rome. Plus a translation, by Benjamin Ehrlich, of the Nobel Prize neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal‘s thoughts on death, glory, and the limits of the human condition. This issue’s updated design features cover art by Jennifer Riley. BUY THIS ISSUE

Filed Under: News & Notes Tagged With: NER 33.1

Volume 39, Number 4
Cover art by Emilia Dubicki

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