New England Review

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.

Find more books by NER authors on our Bookshop.org page.

NER Recommends | Plotting Against Plot by Vincent Czyz

In AGNI Online, Vincent Czyz argues with the idea of plot in fiction:

Moby-Dick doesn’t have much plot to speak of; in 500–plus pages, the action can be reduced to a one- or two-page synopsis without leaving out anything vital…The book as a whole is aimed at some “ungraspable phantom of life,” is obsessed with the inscrutable depths of the sea—surely an allusion to the mysteries of the soul or psyche (choose your spin)—with the inexplicable lure of the color white, with the undefinable symbol of the whale, “be he agent or principle.” And then there’s the friendship between Queequeg and Ishmael to infuse Melville’s metaphysics with something warm-blooded, an emotional handhold for the reader. No, plot doesn’t figure in as one of the things that make this book memorable. Rather it provides a loose framework for the things that make the book hard to forget.

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