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New England Review

Vol. 43, No. 2 (2022)

Selections from the Current Issue

Fiction

David Ryan

Elision

They were playing the cartwheel game out on the lawn. Christopher’s toys were scattered nearby—the wooden horse, the bells, the blanket they’d stretched out on for the picnic—and Lily had thought it might be time to bring them in, as the sky was getting weird. Then the dark tips of the forest’s pines below the base of the lawn shivered silver . . .

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Poetry

Tiana Clark

The Terror of New Love!

I thought about taking a picture.
To capture what? I decided to live

through the present moment instead:
ephemeral glaze, sentimental risk

with the numb tips of our chilled noses
grazing as we kissed and kissed . . .

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Poetry

Taghrid Abdelal

Salt Pieces

Everything will melt 
at the bottom of childhood: 
the road is the salt.

If we empty the glass 
we won’t dissolve—salt 
will devise new noses 
to seek us out . . .

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Nonfiction

Rima Rantisi

Waiting

I am at O’Hare, in one of the three cities I call home. It is just a few miles from my Chicago neighborhood, am at O’Hare, in one of the three cities I call home. It is just a few miles from my Chicago neighborhood, Portage Park, where my gregarious neighbor Gary lived and died, where where there’s a swimming pool in the park . . .

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News & Notes

Summer 2022

New Books by NER Authors

Summer 2022

Read widely this season with the help of our authors! Check out our summer book roundup for 5 new books by NER contributors and don’t forget to shop these titles on our Bookshop.org page!

Summer 2022

Introducing NER 43.2

Summer 2022

Readers will find plenty of places to go in the summer issue of NER—now shipping from the printer—and like true travelers will find expectations upended and experiences that shift their ways of seeing.

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News & Notes

Summer 2022

Introducing NER 43.2

Summer 2022

June 27, 2022 Filed Under: Featured, News & Notes

Readers will find plenty of places to go in the summer issue of NER—now shipping from the printer—and like true travelers will find expectations upended and experiences that shift their ways of seeing. Take a look inside our international feature on new writing from Lebanon, in which guest …
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Count the Wars

Roman Malynovsky

Count the Wars

March 18, 2022 Filed Under: Dispatches, Featured, News & Notes

"I remember as a child, around the age of seven or eight, asking my parents how many wars there had been. For some reason it was up to me to find out . . . At the time, I had no doubt that they could all be counted." From his family home in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine, Roman Malynovsky …
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Summer 2022

New Books by NER Authors

Summer 2022

June 30, 2022 Filed Under: Featured, NER Authors' Books, News & Notes

Read widely this season with the help of our authors! Check out our summer book roundup for 5 new books by NER contributors and don't forget to shop these titles on our Bookshop.org page. Not When I'm Gone by novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and critic Roger Salloch makes its debut …
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Justin Balog

Behind the Byline

Justin Balog

June 13, 2022 Filed Under: Behind the Byline, Featured, News & Notes

NER poetry reader Liza Watkins talks with poet Justin Balog about abstraction and intimacy, the responsibility of poetry (if any!), his two poems in NER 43.1, and his artistic influences. Liza Watkins: I’m curious about your writing process. Near the end of “Observation on Discovery,” a …
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Rob Franklin

Behind the Byline

Rob Franklin

June 6, 2022 Filed Under: Behind the Byline, Featured, News & Notes

NER fiction editor Ernest McLeod speaks with writer Rob Franklin—whose story "Phoenix" appears in NER 43.1—about restraint, intimacy in the internet age, and queer kinship. Ernest McLeod: “Phoenix” opens with the story’s narrator, David, recalling how much a particular writer meant to …
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