“The Hours takes place in a single day. The year shifts between 1923, 1949, and the late 1990s, but the hours push on until night . . .”
Month: May 2023
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Greg Pierce
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Jacek Dehnel
“On the other hand, Polish society—under cultural pressure from the ‘rotten West’ (as Putin puts it)—is rapidly becoming increasingly tolerant. In short: the Church is losing the battle to Netflix.”
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Gurmeet Singh
NER fiction reader Lee Holden talks to Gurmeet Singh, author of the short story “anonymous user”(44.1), about the relationship between anonymity and fantasy, the idiosyncrasies of fictional speech, and how our brains betray us.
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Catherine Ahearn
Catherine Ahearn ’11 talks to NER intern Brett Sorbo ’24 about living in Boston, exploring special collections libraries, and trusting her gut.
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Rebecca van Laer
Staff reader Megan Howell talks with contributor Rebecca van Laer about irony, the transitive properties of unconditional love, and the emergence of a “feline” story structure in her piece “Les Chats” (NER 44.1).
 




