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Tareena Shakil jailed for six years for taking boy to Syria to join IS
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Graphic Video Evidence of Muslim Migrant Violence in Germany amid Calls for Merkel’s Resignation
Mother of girl, 16, who was raped in hotel by three Somali men tells how the attackers’ relatives terrified her throughout the trial
This would not have happened when I was a Court Clerk. I won’t say that I would not have allowed it, although as the Clerk I was in charge of the […]
Crossword Strike Out
We did not receive a correct entry for our January puzzle. Sorry! Keep playing everyone!
NER Turns Ten
Today is the ten year anniversary for our magazine and the five year anniversary for our book publishing arm, NER Press. In that time we have published 121 monthly issues, […]
Saffron Rain
by Ankur Betageri (February 2016) And it poured and poured as I held my umbrella and stood under the awning of the bookstore more>>>
A Hand is the First Thing One Gives to Another
by Sutapa Chaudhuri (February 2016) Lies inform the leftover caresses. more>>>
Flow Infinite
by Dilip Mohapatra (February 2016) The ink flows in microdrops and encapsulates the flow of thoughts on sheafs of virgin paper more>>>
Three Poems From a Sequence: Nightmare Versions
In these bizarre times our own nightmares can seem a refuge by Evelyn Hooven (February 2016) A SUMMARY It does recur, yes often— The voices intimate, stern, […]
The Merchant of Scarsdale
by David P. Gontar (February 2016) There was once a successful financier of Scarsdale who had accumulated a sizable fortune in the commodities market. As his health was good and […]
The University Talk that Cost Ali Wheatley His Career
by A. Human Being (February 2016) September 13, 2013: Arkham, Massachusetts, USA If Western scholars must bury the fact that Muhammad was a mass-murderer, then something is deeply wrong with […]
The Faces of Love
by Sam Bluefarb (February 2015) “There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the face of doom, which invariably compels human beings to linger around […]
Glimpsing a Revolution through the Chinks of the Text: Deconstructing Mrichchhakatika
by Ankur Betageri (February 2016) Poverty and the effect it has on the psyche of man is a central theme in Shudraka’s play Mrichchhakatika. Poverty forces the characters to […]
Thornton Wilder: Two Laments
by James Como (February 2016) These days the American reading and theatre-going public pays little attention to Thornton Wilder, and that sporadically at best, as when David Cromer’s marvelous production […]
The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest – Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (February 2016)
Bernard Kops, Poetry & Peril
Peace Will Come, Anne Frank Insists, You Will See by Thomas Ország-Land (February 2016) Bernard Kops, the doyen of Anglo-Jewish letters, has responded to a global resurgence of violent anti-Semitism […]