The online preview of NER 47.2 is live and ready to be savored!
Experience excerpts from our international folio "Brazilian Badlands: Seven Women Writing the Brazilian Northeast," guest edited by Bruna Dantas Lobato; rewarding poetry & prose; & much more.
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Our May ‘26 roundup includes the fourth bilingual volume by one of Fernando Pessoa’s storied heteronyms, an unpredictable debut novel that questions dominant trauma narratives, two poetry collections that meditate on fatherhood & survival, & much more.
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In our last Behind the Byline feature for issue 47.1, staff reader Dana Lynch speaks with writer Elizabeth Lee on untranslatable language, the parasocial nature of mukbangs, and crafting a self-conscious point of view in her story "AYCE."
Read their exchange here: nereview.com/behind-the-b...
We're thrilled to reveal the artwork for our summer issue (47.2): High Tide by Gustavo Amaral, courtesy of the artist.
Issue 47.2 is now at the printer & our online preview will launch next week. Don't miss this red-hot issue—order single copies & subscriptions here: www.middstore.com/ner/
In our latest Behind the Byline feature, staff reader Thomas Nath talks with poet Ama Codjoe about intimacy, the potency of childhood, and the uses of memory in her sonnet sequence from NER 47.1.
Read their exchange here: nereview.com/ama-codjoe/
In a new Behind the Byline interview, staff reader Zara Karschay talks with writer José Orduña about ambiguity, refracting the immigrant experience, and the question of fate in his story "Night Blindness" from NER 47.1.
Read their exchange here: nereview.com/behind-the-b...
“In his version, I tell Sam he won’t ever have sex with another woman, so he sleeps with the first willing candidate to prove otherwise.”
—Elizabeth Lee’s “AYCE,” featured in the @newenglandreview.bsky.social & our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: nereview.com/article/ayce/
We're looking for a new poetry editor! This is an independent contractor position, hired through Middlebury College.
Applications will be accepted through June 1, 2026.
Learn more and apply here: newenglandreview.submittable.com/.../poetry-e...
Read an interview with Jane Bernstein in @newenglandreview.bsky.social this #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth! Bernstein discusses public tragedies, the myth of closure, and her essay “I’m Thinking About My Sister, Fifty-Eight Years After She Was Murdered.” nereview.com/jane-bernste...
"Though 'The Manifest' is my poem of Idaho written in Idaho, someone else wrote Idaho long ago . . ."
In our latest Writer's Notebook feature, poet Oscar Oswald interrogates systems of authority and reveals the origins of his poem "The Manifest," from NER 47.1.
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In his version, I tell Sam he won’t ever have sex with another woman, so he sleeps with the first willing candidate to prove otherwise. He and Madeleine pursue the act with languorous movements to…
Staff reader Meera Vijayann speaks with NER author Jane Bernstein about public tragedies, the myth of closure, and her essay “I’m Thinking About My Sister, Fifty-Eight Years After She Was Murdered”…
