MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – New England Review’s (NER) latest issue takes a close look at various cultures of violence, through the lens of a medical doctor, a soldier in Iraq, a family traveling abroad, and more. The fall issue—with 26 contributors in prose, poetry, and translation—also features an excerpt from a new play by recent Guggenheim Fellow Dan O’Brien ’96; cover art from Sabra Field’s “Pandora Suite,” which was recently exhibited at the Middlebury College Museum of Art; and the first English translation of an incisive literary essay by Paul Bourget, in translation by Lois B. Watson Professor Emerita of French Nancy O’Connor.
Returning to these pages are poets Paisley Rekdal and Benjamin S. Grossberg, along with fiction writers Steven Heighton and Megan Staffel. Well-known poets Tony Hoagland and Victoria Chang are joined by newcomers Landon Godfrey and Caroline M. Mar, and a number of former Bread Loaf fellows and scholars contribute as well. Among them are Bruce Snider, with a personal essay about gay poetry in rural America; Eric McMillan, with a riveting short story about a stray dog among soldiers; and original poems by Greg Wrenn and Kai Carlson-Wee.
Samples of this new issue and interviews with select authors can be found on the NERwebsite.
Published by Middlebury College, New England Review is a nationally recognized literary journal that cultivates artistic excellence and innovation in contemporary writing and engages readers deeply in the literary arts through its quarterly publication, dynamic web presence, and public reading series.