look up the effects of painting when you’re pregnant and they are bad.
I look up the effects of sculpting when you’re pregnant and they are worse.
I wake up in the night full of sweat . . .
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NER 46.3-4 contributor Jessie Li talks with staff reader Dana Lynch about infinite universes, writing in first-person plural, and the function of misunderstanding in her short story “How We Met Our Father.”
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Staff reader Simone Kraus talks with NER 46.3-4 contributor Michael Carson about the significance of writing letters, Kafka and Lawrence, and the relationship between war and writing.
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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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NER Out Loud Of Coywolves and Women
Caley Henderson reads an excerpt from her essay “Of Coywolves and Women,” first published in NER 46.3-4 (2025).
