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• November ’23 Reading Roundup

  Browse & shop new books by Ellen Hinsey, Kazim Ali, Rajiv Mohabir, Sebastián H. Páramo, & more.

• Contributors’ Notes 45.4

  Garous Abdolmalekian is an award-winning Iranian poet. His poetry has been translated into several languages, including Italian, French, and German, winning prestigious literary distinctions in Europe. His debut collection in translated English, Lean Against This Late Hour, was published by Penguin Random House in 2020. Abdolmalekian is currently the poetry editor at Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House. […]

• Vol. 45, No. 4

  Buy the issue in print or as an e-book NONFICTION EDITOR’S NOTE POETRYJULIE CHOFFEL  Executive Function / Rest Stop / Even the OthersBURNSIDE SOLEIL  In California for Your Birthday, We Saw Coyote at Dawn / Notes on the Second Horse in Charles Ray’s Two HorsesKAZIM ALI  Losing My ReligionJESSICA TANCK  Wood Violet / Return of the Prodigal […]

• NER Out Loud

  Founded in 2015, “NER Out Loud” is a collaboration of the New England Review, Middlebury’s Mahaney Arts Center, and Oratory Now. In the tradition of NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” Middlebury student performers read selections from the New England Review on stage, lending their voices to the work on the page and bringing it to life for an audience […]

• Introducing NER 45.4

  The print edition of our cinematic winter issue (45.4) is on its way to subscribers and our online preview is now live!

• September ’24 Reading Roundup

  Browse & shop new books by the Undocupoets, Charles Holdefer, László Krasznahorkai, Erminia Dell’Oro, & more.

• June ’24 Reading Roundup

  Browse & shop new books by Carolyn Kuebler, Samira Negrouche, Michael Deagler, Mark Harman, & more.

• Asian American Literature Festival Revisited

  In acknowledgement of the efforts invested in the festival by the writers and organizers, and of the loss this represents to American literature and the strength of its communities, we are releasing this feature from the NER archive.

• Shreela Ray: An Introduction

  I want to talk about the “secret history.” The term itself acknowledges that whether the history is known or not, it has an impact upon our present lives, which is to say the “secret” is worth knowing. It’s not only to better understand our present that we seek to learn the secret history: we also […]

• Contributors’ Notes 41.1

  Kazim Ali’s books include poetry, essay, fiction, translation, and cross-genre work. He is a professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego, located in unceded Kumeyaay lands. Linda Frazee Baker’s translations of works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch, and Ödön von Horváth have appeared in the Guardian, Asymptote, Metamorphoses, Web Conjunctions, […]

• Jennifer Chang + Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis

  We associate lectures with dull erudition and cold, sterile lecture halls. Our associations with history are hardly different: history, we think, exudes importance with broad-shouldered publicity, such pomp. But for marginalized communities, our cultural knowledge has come with far less fanfare. When Juan Felipe Hererra was finishing his first term as US Poet Laureate, he […]

• Vol. 41, No. 1

  Buy the issue in print or as an ebook  EDITOR’S NOTE  POETRYJOANNA KLINK  from Night SkyEMILY JUNGMIN YOON  Elsewhere ZACH LINGE  Offered as Suddenly a Forest / BranchesVANDANA KHANNA  How the Suitors Woo / Penelope at Her BathsMAURA STANTON  The Chimneys of Venice /My Fantasy CoffinCOREY VAN LANDINGHAM  Reader, I [was, according to Virgil] / Reader, I [kept […]

• Awards and Honors for NER Authors

  Congratulations to all of the NER authors who have recently been honored with awards and fellowships, including Owen McLeod, Penelope Cray, Mark Irwin, and more!

• Pele Voncujovi Reads “Origin Story”

  Pele Voncujovi read Kazim Ali’s “Origin Story” on November 10, as part of an NER Out Loud event at Middlebury College. “Origin Story” was originally published in NER Vol. 38, No. 1 (2017) and is available to read online here. Pele Voncujovi ’19 was born in Japan to Ghanaian father and a Japanese mother. His family moved to […]

• Contributors’ Notes 38.1

  Kazim Ali’s most recent books are a hybrid novel, The Secret Room: A String Quartet (Kaya Press, 2017), and a monograph, Anais Nin: An Unprofessional Study (Sundress Publications, 2017). His fifth full-length collection of poetry is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in early 2018. Ryan Bloom is an English lecturer at the University of Maryland, […]

• Vol. 38, No. 1

  Buy the issue in print or as an e-book EDITOR’S NOTE POETRY CAYLIN CAPRA-THOMAS  Cassiopeia DEVON WALKER-FIGUEROA  Philomath SEAN SHEARER  Brick MARTHA SILANO  When I began to dig DORA MALECH   As I gather SARAH PAPE   Turntable / In a Drowned Forest You Find Your Father ADRIENNE SU   Substitutions / That Almond Dessert KAZIM ALI   Origin Story BRIAN TIERNEY   Greystone Park […]

• NER Out Loud

  ABOUT “NER Out Loud” is a collaboration of the New England Review, Middlebury’s Mahaney Arts Center, and Oratory Now. In the tradition of NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” Middlebury student performers read selections from the New England Review on stage, lending their voices to the work on the page and bringing it to life for an audience of students, […]

• Contributors’ Notes 36.2

  Nick Admussen is an assistant professor of Chinese literature at Cornell University. He has translated the work of Zang Di and samizdat poet Genzi, as well as the poetry and prose of Liu Xiaobo. His own poetry has recently appeared in Fence and Sou’wester. He blogs on Chinese poetry in American life for the Boston […]

• Vol. 36, No. 2

  [buy this issue] EDITOR’S NOTE POETRY YA SHI  Full Moon Night / Entering the Hills translated by Nick Admussen DAVID BAKER  Storm Psalm BRUCE BOND  Blood KAZIM ALI  Letter to Zephyr the West Wind, from the boy Hyacinth KATRINA ROBERTS  An Ever of Salt CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN  Elegy  /  Myth LUISA A. IGLORIA  Syllogism XIAO KAIYU  Our Poets  /  A Novel translated by […]

• Editor’s Note, Vol. 40, No. 2

  Discovering the themes that arise and resonate is one of the pleasures we offer readers as they make their way through these pages. We don’t assign themes at the outset of any issue of NER but allow them to develop organically as the selections come together each quarter. And while each issue contains writing by international […]

• How do you pronounce those names?

  While compiling this issue, our staff in the Vermont office kept asking ourselves that question. So we brought in Kevin Moss, Fulton Professor of Modern Language & Literature at Middlebury College, to offer his expertise, which we share here with you. BOLESŁAW LEŚMIAN KAZIMIERZ WIERZYŃSKI MARIA PAWLIKOWSKA-JASNORZEWSKA JULIAN TUWIM TADEUSZ PEIPER JULIAN PRZYBOŚ STANISŁAW GROCHOWIAK […]

• Editor’s Note, Vol. 40, No. 2

  Discovering the themes that arise and resonate is one of the pleasures we offer readers as they make their way through these pages. We don’t assign themes at the outset of any issue of NER but allow them to develop organically as the selections come together each quarter. And while each issue contains writing by international […]

• Vol. 40, No. 2

  Buy the issue in print or as an ebook EDITOR’S NOTE POETRYFLOWER CONROY Who Loves a Quarry?ANNAH OMUNE SIDIGU CardinalMARILYN HACKER Ghazal: Your FaceMARK IRWIN What a great responsibility / HereSARA ELIZA JOHNSON MigrationDAVID BAKER Hold Hands / Nine Wild Turkeys in a FieldELLEN WELCKER Any Grieving MammalCARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ Last Sundays at BootleggersMATTHEW NIENOW […]

• Polish Poetry in Translation: Bridging the Frontiers of Language

  Buy the issue — or subscribe! Translation is a mysterious, imperfect art. Its impetus often arises out of unforeseen circumstances: impromptu voyages, a book’s accidental discovery, or the punishments and revelations of exile. These chance factors mean that, despite the increasing so-called globalization of the world, one can never definitively be sure that a text, […]

• How do you pronounce those names?

  While compiling this issue, our staff in the Vermont office kept asking ourselves that question. So we brought in Kevin Moss, Fulton Professor of Modern Language & Literature at Middlebury College, to offer his expertise, which we share here with you. BOLESŁAW LEŚMIAN KAZIMIERZ WIERZYŃSKI MARIA PAWLIKOWSKA-JASNORZEWSKA JULIAN TUWIM TADEUSZ PEIPER JULIAN PRZYBOŚ STANISŁAW GROCHOWIAK […]

• Contributors’ Notes 40.2

  STEVE ALMOND is the author of the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal (Grove Press, 2002), The Evil B. B. Chow (Algonquin, 2005), and God Bless America (Lookout Books, 2011). He is at work on a new collection.  DAVID BAKER’s latest book is Swift: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2019). He is Poetry Editor of Kenyon Review and lives in Granville, […]

• NER Digital

  Laws of Motion It was supposed to be part of a revolution, he said. The Suprematists weren’t just looking to create art—they sought a universal connection and a new way of thinking for society. Utopia. Transcendence. To that end, Kazimir Malevich stripped realism from his canvases and instead inserted simple shapes, geometric abstraction meant to […]