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We circle the bed in the ICU as if gathering around the dinner table, all of us partaking in the last days of our father. He stares at the ceiling. His nose is hooked to an oxygen tube . . .
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NER 46.3-4 author Alisha Dietzman talks with managing editor Leslie Sainz about the meditative power of repetition, fixed moments of sensory memory, and the generative influence of film and TV on her recent poems.
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“A novel’s success does not rest on its function as polemics or a jeremiad, but to a large extent it does rest on its logic. And since novels exist in the world, it’s not a stretch to say that novels have a large stake in articulating societal illogics . . .”
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“. . . I experienced Lê’s style of writing as the smooth gliding of a sharpened pocketknife along the surface of the skin, with moments when the tip of the blade would puncture the flesh.”
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Browse & shop new books by Margo Glantz, Sam Munson, Oksana Vasyakina, David Guterson, & more.
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Poet, novelist, critic, and NER contributor Tabish Khair presents a brief essay and interview with author, librarian, and community organizer Mridula Koshy.
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Join us on Thursday, January 22, at 8:00 PM ET on Zoom for a celebratory reading honoring our outgoing fiction editor Ernest McLeod.
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NER Out Loud Family Brief
Joel Cuthbertson reads an excerpt from his story “Family Brief,” which first appeared in NER 46.3-4 (2025).
