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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

David Ryan

Behind the Byline

David Ryan

NER’s Elizabeth Sutton speaks with 43.2 contributor David Ryan about juxtaposition, character development, and writing around gaps in his story “Elision.”

Corey Van Landingham

Behind the Byline

Corey Van Landingham

NER Managing Editor Leslie Sainz talks with poet Corey Van Landingham about urgency and liberation in persona poetry, the character of silence, and her two poems in NER 43.2.

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News & Notes

Gábor Schein’s “My Gate”

Literature & Democracy

Gábor Schein’s “My Gate”

July 25, 2022 Filed Under: Featured, Literature and Democracy, News & Notes

Budapest Living Memorial to victims of the Holocaust. Photo by Ellen Hinsey. "What is happening now has long since been anticipated by poetry. Poetry is the sensory organ of the future." Hungarian poet and writer Gábor Schein examines the war in Ukraine, the concept of citizenship in the …
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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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David Ryan

Behind the Byline

David Ryan

August 10, 2022 Filed Under: Behind the Byline, Featured, News & Notes

NER’s Elizabeth Sutton speaks with 43.2 contributor David Ryan about juxtaposition, character development, and writing around gaps in his story "Elision." Elizabeth Sutton: "Elision" begins with the tranquil scene of a child’s cartwheels on a lawn and progresses ominously to a …
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Corey Van Landingham

Behind the Byline

Corey Van Landingham

July 29, 2022 Filed Under: Behind the Byline, Featured, News & Notes

NER Managing Editor Leslie Sainz talks with poet Corey Van Landingham about urgency and liberation in persona poetry, the character of silence, and her two poems in NER 43.2. Leslie Sainz: It’s my understanding that you’re in the process of, or have recently started, teaching a class …
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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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