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Announcing NER 36.2

July 10, 2015


With its focus on China, NER 36.2 brings us up close to an old, new world of art and history, nature and poetry. Also in this issue, we traverse our own country from the Atlantic to the Pacific with authors as they remember collective pasts, brave their own presents, and escort the most foreign of foreigners from our halls of ivy to our backroads theaters. The new issue of NER has just shipped from the printer and a preview is available on our website. Order a print or digital copy today!

POETRY

Kazim Ali • David Baker • Christopher Bakken • Joshua Bennett • Bruce Bond • Luisa A. Igloria • Vandana Khanna • Rickey Laurentiis • Katrina Roberts • Ed Skoog • Xiao Kaiyu (translated by Christopher Lukpe) • Ya Shi (translated by Nick Admussen) • Yin Lichuan (translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain)


FICTION

Steve De Jarnatt • Joann Kobin • Carla Panciera • Sharon Solwitz • Michael X. Wang.


NONFICTION

• Wei An’s ruminations on nature just north of Beijing (translated by Thomas Moran)
• Wendy Willis on Ai Weiwei’s blockbuster show at Alcatraz
• Marianne Boruch discovers the diagnostic value of poetry
• Interpreter Eric Wilson relives the encounters of a Faeroese poet with American activists, academics, and alcohol
• James Naremore considers the considerable Orson Welles at 100, looking beyond Citizen Kane
• Jeff Staiger makes a case for how The Pale King was to have trumped Infinite Jest
• Camille T. Dungy is more than welcomed to Presque Isle as she finds herself in Maine’s early history
• “The Gloomy Dean” William Ralph Inge revisits Rome under the Caesars

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Filed Under: News & Notes Tagged With: Bruce Bond, Camille T. Dungy, Carla Panciera, Christopher Bakken, Christopher Lupke, David Baker, Ed Skoog, Eric Wilson, Fiona Sza-Lorrain, james Naremore, Jeff Staiger, Joann Kobin, Joshua Bennett, Katrina Roberts, Kazim Ali, Luisa A. Igloria, Marianne Boruch, Michael X. Wang, New England Review, Nick Admussen, Rickey Laurentiis, Sharon Solwitz, Steve de Jarnatt, Vandan Khanna, Xiao Kaiyu, Ya Shi, Yin Lichuan

Dr. Leopold’s Problem with Contentment

September 25, 2012

Joann Kobin’s short story, Dr. Leopold’s Problem with Contentment, appeared in NER 25.1-2 (2004):

“Edgar, forget the symbolism of the house. Don’t overanalyze. Besides, Jason and I get along well.”

Edgar concedes. Lisa may be onto something: that Jason’s no longer the adored little cousin he once was here in his uncle David’s house. His cousins have moved on to their own adult lives. My God, they certainly have! He lets go of his timeworn theories and asks Lisa whether she noticed Anita’s strand of black pearls. “David told me how much they cost. Take a guess.”

Lisa declines to guess, and Edgar leaves her in peace. She’s happy to have some time out in this house of fecundity.

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Filed Under: NER Classics Tagged With: Dr. Leopold's Problem with Contentment, Joann Kobin

Cover art by Ralph Lazar

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Writer’s Notebook—No Ruined Stone

Shara McCallum

Writer’s Notebook—No Ruined Stone

Answering such queries typically falls to novelists. But, being a poet, I felt compelled to ask poetry to respond.

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