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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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“. . . 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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Browse & shop new books by Alla Gorbunova, Celeste Mohammed, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, & more.
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NER 46.3-4 author Olakunle Ologunro talks with staff reader Zara Karschay about looking back versus looking at, the behavioral consequences of heat, and breaking his own heart while writing his story “Home Training.”
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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).
