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and have a strong narrative. We appreciate when an essay moves beyond the personal to tell us something new about the world. From the Editors Fifty-eight thousand Americans died in Viet Nam. At the time we are going to press, nearly 320,000 have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. Personal responsibility just doesn’t work. Our hospitals are crowded, our nurses and doctors placed in harm’s way, while too many people refuse to wear masks across the state. Why? Our mythologies, the narratives our country tells about itself, are governed by a central contradiction of the American psyche: the belief in rugged individualism versus the call to collective duty. During the Great Depression, civics textbooks claimed the trait most admired by teenagers was self-sacrifice: people surrendering their own needs to the larger good. Crime stories and gangster films often feature individuals who climb the crooked rungs of the ladder to success and are punished for ....
Emerging Writers 2021 To publish emerging writers alongside those who are well-known is the mantra of literary magazines everywhere, but New England Review is truly dedicated to discovering significant new voices and to giving them a place in the broader literary discussion that happens all around us and in every issue of our journal. This spring’s submission period is the perfect time for writers who have not yet published a book to send us their best work. We’ll be open in all genres for at least the month of March and likely through May 1, though we may close early if we reach our limit of submissions. ....
Announcing the Finalists Samyak Shertok (41.4) This award provides a full scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference the exact details of which are still to be determined for 2021 and is given annually to an emerging writer who offers an unusual and compelling new voice and who has been published by NER in the past year. The winner will be announced in March. Congratulations to all six finalists! We are proud to have published such strong work from emerging writers in 2020. ....