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New England Review

Vol. 43, No. 4 (2022)

Selections from the Current Issue

Fiction

Carrie R. Moore

In the Swirl

That summer, vermin fled the Alabama heat, scrambled into the pool, and drowned. They must’ve been compelled by the pumps churning the water, the waves cresting teal-blue from the pool’s sides before flattening in the middle. The pool carried so much from the shallow end to the deep and back . . .

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Poetry

Josh Tvrdy

My Mother Is Patient with Plums

She lets them grow slack in their purple suits.
She keeps them

in a bowl on the granite island.
Plump, gleaming—like the plucked eyes

of a black bear—so dark
they hoard the morning light . . .

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Poetry

Daniela Catrileo

from Guerrilla Blooms

It’s hard to say:
is this a tapir
or
is this fear

I can’t decide
if the image existed
in this universe 
of things . . .

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Nonfiction

Leath Tonino

American Outback

I’m refilling my coffee, refreshing the video, banging the spacebar to halt the man mid-sentence, banging it to start him pontificating again. My girlfriend, Sophia, pokes her head into the room and rolls her eyes at this caffeinated Saturday madness. With the dullest of pencils, I’m gouging a notepad . . .

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News & Notes

Announcing the Finalists for 2023

NER Award for Emerging Writers

Announcing the Finalists for 2023

It is with enormous pleasure that we announce the finalists for our annual Award for Emerging Writers: Heidi Bell, TR Brady, Min Li Chan, Rob Franklin, Iris A. Law, and Kosiso Ugwueze.

Tomas Venclova

Literature & Democracy

Tomas Venclova

“A principled stance against aggression should never turn into blind hatred. Such hatred does not help anyone to win . . .”

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News & Notes

Announcing the Finalists for 2023

NER Award for Emerging Writers

Announcing the Finalists for 2023

February 3, 2023 Filed Under: Featured, News & Notes

Top row, left to right: Heidi Bell, TR Brady, Min Li Chan; bottom row, left to right: Rob Franklin, Iris A. Law, Kosiso Ugwueze It is with enormous pleasure that we announce the finalists for the ninth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers: Heidi Bell, TR Brady, Min Li Chan, Rob …
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Tomas Venclova

Literature & Democracy

Tomas Venclova

February 1, 2023 Filed Under: Featured, Literature and Democracy, News & Notes

GULAG prisoner's uniform and belongings, Sakharov Center, Moscow. Photo by Ellen Hinsey. The Sakharov Center has been accused of violating Russia's Foreign Agent Laws. "A principled stance against aggression should never turn into blind hatred. Such hatred does not help …
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Katie Moulton: Memoir & Elegy

New Episode of NER Out Loud

Katie Moulton: Memoir & Elegy

January 27, 2023 Filed Under: Featured, News & Notes, Podcast

"When I'm writing through memory or experience, it's really difficult for me to disentangle it from the music . . ." In episode 22 of NER Out Loud, Dead Dad Club author Katie Moulton reads an excerpt from her essay "The Elvis Room" (NER 43.3), followed by a conversation with host, Becca …
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M. Colón-Margolies

Behind the Byline

M. Colón-Margolies

January 13, 2023 Filed Under: Featured, News & Notes

Photo by Sarah Lundin NER fiction reader Malka Daskal talks to M. Colón-Margolies about capturing everyday violence through surrealism, how psychology informs character studies, and her story, "Souvenirs," from issue 43.4. Malka Daskal: In your story, “Souvenirs,” the narrator is …
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