• Alumni Reading at Reunion 2026

    In celebration of Middlebury’s reunion weekend, New England Review will host a reading for five alumni authors on Saturday, June 6, at 1 PM in Axinn Center 229. This event is free and open to the public.

  • José Orduña

    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.

  • Species of Attention: On Translation

    “The threat that translation should pose is the kind good comedy poses—it punches up, not laterally or downwards. Translation should disturb. It should alarm. It is essential, in fact, that it distress, especially the powers that keep trying to tell us a text is fixed . . .”

  • Hasanthika Sirisena

    Staff reader Meera Vijayann talks with NER 47.1 author Hasanthika Sirisena about rethinking relationships, the differences between public and private sex, and the research that led to her essay “Castaway.”

  • April ’26 Reading Roundup

    Browse & shop new books by Christopher Kondrich, Nur Turkmani, Amit Majmudar, Ina Cariño, & more.

  • Paulina Choh

    Editorial intern Regan Olusegun ’26 talks with former NER intern Paulina Choh ‘16 about returning to academia, applying her editorial experience, and the power of hands-on learning.

  • NER Out Loud While my father was dying, I kept having dreams about my exes

    Lauren Eggert-Crowe reads her poem “While my father was dying, I kept having dreams about my exes” from NER 47.1 (2026).

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