“There is such a complex and satisfying ordering within the journal as a whole,” the Review Review has said, and several years ago the Boston Globe called NER “a high-class lit magazine that also happens to be secretly sexy.” Luna Park called us “one of the crispest designed and consistently fascinating high-quality literary journals around,” and in 2019 Every Writer listed NER at #5 on its list of Top 50 Literary Magazines, based on “close to 20 data points.” See what others are saying about NER in more detail in the following links:

New Pages (newpages.com) reviews NER 40.2, “Polish Poetry in Translation (2019).” Also read New Pages’ blog piece on the same issue (2020).
The Middlebury Campus reviews the NER Out Loud podcast (2019)
The Guardian: VIDA finds that smaller literary magazines such as NER are “far more equitable” than larger publications (2018)
Middlebury Campus: NER Celebrates 40 Years (2018)
NewPages: review of NER 38.3 (2017)
Every Writer: Top 50 Lit Mags (2010, 2017, 2019)
Writer’s Digest: Bonus Q&A’s from Fiction Editors (2017)
The Review Review: “Eschewing Stereotypes, Lit Mag Offers a Complex & Satisfying View of Germany” (2016)
Middlebury News: NER Essay Noted Among Best of the Year (2016)
The Millions: “The Golden Child: Literary Editors Pick Their Favorite Issues (2016)
Essay Daily: On New England Review’s nonfiction and taking the long view (2015)
The Review Review: “Middlebury College Delivers a Seriously Good Lit Mag” (2014)
Top Lit Mags that Really Do Publish Emerging Writers (Michael Alexander Chaney, 2013)
Middlebury News: Carolyn Kuebler to Become Editor of NER (2013)
Bookfox: Ranking of Literary Journals (2011, updated annually)
Writer’s Relief: Lit Mag Spotlight, interview with Carolyn Kuebler (2011)
Boston Globe surveys New England lit mags (2008)
Seven Days: Interview with Stephen Donadio (2007)

See below for various rankings, based on prize anthology stats and updated annually:

Every Writers’ Resource
Perpetual Follies
Bookfox