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New Books by NER Authors

September 2022 (Part Two)

Here are five more new releases from NER authors to add to your fall reading list. Be sure to shop these and other contributor titles on our Bookshop page.

Tawanda Mulalu’s debut poetry collection, Please Make Me Pretty I Don’t Want to Die, is hot off the press from Princeton University Press. Mulalu’s poems “Song,” “Connecticut,” and “My Brother Does Not Return for My Mother’s Fiftieth” appeared in our most recent emerging writers issue, NER 42.4. 

New York Times poetry columnist Elisa Gabbert’s third poetry collection, Normal Distance, is out now from Soft Skull. Gabbert’s work has been praised as possessing a “questing, restless intelligence” (Kirkus Reviews). Her poems “Historians of the Future” and “Bright & Distant Objects” appeared in NER 41.3.

Wo Chan’s debut poetry collection, Togetherness, was released by Nightboat Books earlier this fall. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly praised the collection as a “vivid and surprising work . . . Daring and original, Chan’s poetry collapses categories to create inspired art.” Their poem “Years Flow by Like Water” appeared in NER 43.1.

Robert and Elizabeth Chandler’s translation of Vasily Grossman’s The People Immortal is out now from The New York Review of Books. Robert Chandler is a two-time recipient of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages translation prize. Several of Robert and Elizabeth Chandler’s Russian translations appeared in NER 34.3-4.

Whiting Award winner Morgan Meis’s The Fate of the Animals—the second volume in his Three Paintings Trilogy—has just been released by Slant Books. An exploration of Franz Marc’s 1913 masterpiece of the same name, Meis references Norse mythology, Degas, Nietzsche, and others to study the painting in depth. Meis’s essay “Two Letters About Two Viewings of To the Wonder” appeared in NER 39.2.

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New Books by NER Authors

September 2022

Need some inspiration for your fall reading list? NER has you covered! Part 1 of our September roundup includes new work by a Pulitzer Prize winner, a lyric memoir, acclaimed novels, and more. Shop these new titles on our Bookshop.org page, and look out for part 2.

Stacey D’Erasmo’s fifth novel, The Complicities, is out now from Algonquin. The Complicities has received praise for incorporating “smooth shifts in perspective and understated and precise prose” (Publishers Weekly). D’Erasmo’s essay “Influence: A Practice in Three Wanders,” appeared in NER 31.4.

Out now from Archipelago is Scholastique Mukasonga’s Kibogo. Publishers Weekly called the novel “Complex and revelatory
. . . Mukasonga complicates the blurry line between history and myth and critiques its relationship to colonialism.” Mukasonga’s short fiction appeared in NER 39.1 and 41.3.

Salvadoran poet Javier Zamora’s Solito: A Memoir is hot off the press from Hogarth. The New York Times Book Review praised the moving collection, noting “Zamora writes like someone who cannot afford to forget.” Zamora’s poem “Exiliados” appeared in NER 38.1. 

From Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham comes the poetry collection [To] the Last [Be] Human. Published by Copper Canyon Press, [To] the Last [Be] Human brings together four books of poems: Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway. Graham’s work has appeared in multiple issues of NER, including volumes 1.4 and 15.1.

Aldo Amparán’s debut poetry collection, Brother Sleep, is out now from Alice James. This haunting, long-awaited collection was selected as the winner of the 2020 Alice James Award. Amparán’s poems “The House Has Teeth” and “A History” appeared in NER 42.3.

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New books by NER Authors

Summer 2022 (Part 2)

Books by NER authors continue to make waves this season! Shop these new, summer titles—and other books by our contributors—on our Bookshop.org page.

David Baker’s eleventh poetry collection, Whale Fall, is out now from W.W. Norton & Co. Environmentally focused, Whale Fall has won Baker critical acclaim as a “peerless poet of the natural world” (New York Times Book Review). Baker has appeared in several issues of NER, most recently NER 40.2, and the forthcoming 43.3.

Out now from Graywolf Press is Charles Baxter’s Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature, a wide-reaching collection of craft essays. Baxter has appeared in multiple issues of NER, and his short story “Sloth,” (NER 43.3-4) was featured as “notable” in Best American Short Stories 2015.

May-lee Chai’s short story collection, Tomorrow in Shanghai, drops this month from Blair. Investigating the cultural complexities of China, the diasporic experience, and more, Tomorrow in Shanghai complements her award-winning story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants. Chai’s essay “Women of Nanjing,” originally published in NER 41.3, was later anthologized in Best American Essays 2021.

Hot off the press is Lauren Acampora’s “arresting” (Publisher’s Weekly) new novel, The Hundred Waters (Grove Atlantic). Acampora is the author of The Paper Wasp, which was named a “Best Summer Read” by The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, and Oprah Magazine. Her writing has appeared in NER volumes 27.3 & 40.1.

Kazim Ali’s translation of famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi’s When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me is out this month from Phoneme Media. Ali is an accomplished translator, author, and critic, whose original essay “Shreela Ray: An Introduction” appeared in NER 41.1.

Released earlier this year from Cinnamon Press, Morning Lit: Portals After Alia is the sixth collection of poetry from Lebanese poet, writer, and critic Omar Sabbagh. Sabbagh’s poems “Letter to an Innocent in the Time of War” and “Unhomely” appeared in NER 43.2. 

Michael Martin Shea’s translation of Liliana Ponce’s Fudekara was published just this June by Cardboard House Press. Shea’s translations and original writings have appeared in numerous journals including Best New Poets, Colorado Review, and Fence. His translation of Liliana Ponce’s poetry sequence “The Somber Station” first appeared in NER 42.4.

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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.

Not When I’m Gone by novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and critic Roger Salloch makes its debut this June from The Permanent Press. Salloch‘s essay “Provenance” appeared in NER 40.1.

O, the third full-length poetry collection by Lebanese writer Zeina Hashem Beck, will hit shelves on July 5 and is available for preorder from Penguin Random House. Beck‘s poem “Bulbul” appears in our latest issue, NER 43.2.

Coming this July from Bellevue Press is Norman Lock’s Voices in the Dead House, the anticipated ninth book in his American Novels series. Lock‘s work has appeared in NER several times, most recently in NER 34.2.


Vincent Czyz’s new collection of critical and personal essays, The Secret Adventures of Order, is out this July from Rain Mountain Press. Czyz’s essay “Collage and the Secret Adventures of Order” appeared in NER 35.3.

The paperback release of Rajiv Mohabir’s award-winning book, Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir, is out this August from Restless Books. Mohabir’s poems “Immigrant Aria” and “Boy-Not-Boy” appeared in NER 38.4.

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