Kudos

“the new renaissance is one of the best literary magazines around. It publishes known and unknown writers from India to Indiana and has only one criterion: excellence. tnr has a unique and vital approach to literature and the arts.”
- Bill Katz
Library Journal

“the new renaissance may be based in the Boston area but it has a mailing list with addresses from around the world…tnr continues the acceptance and nurturing of writers and artist of disparate styles in order to attain both quality and breath of vision.”
- Matthew F. Witten
The Tab

“the new renaissance is a handsomely produced literary magazine of exceptional quality. tnr #21 contains a 25-page essay by Daniel C. Caine entitled “A Crooked Thing” [which] deals exhaustively with “Beggar’s Holiday,” the 1946 comedy that featured Duke Ellington’s music and John Latouche’s lyrics.”
- Stanley Dance, Book Report
Jazztimes

“A beautifully packaged collection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from the middle outlook of our culture but which includes a breakthrough article by David Impastato on the nature and failing of “dominant-mode poetry.” [tnr #27] Also a worth-the-price-of –admission set of reproductions of the neo-Boschian unmiddle outlook paintings by Samuel Bak.”
- Taproot Reviews #6

“This diverse review publishs fiction; lots of American and international poetry (Jose Emilio Pacheco, B. Wongar); essays, e.g., the horrifying “Blind Progress in the Chemical Age” (on toxic waste) and a wonderfully iconoclastic discourse on overrated artists such as Kandinsky, Nolde, Warhol, and Rivers…Unusual features include…the original text of translated poetry even when the languages are Arabic or Greek. This is a good choice for all literature collections.”
- Magazines for Libraies

“I find “Shadow of Death” [by Dominos Szilagyi] particularly impressive because it succeeds in addressing a subject that, paradoxically, many consider too intense for literature and yet which many have written about. After so much fiction, poetry, and essays, it is difficult to avoid certain standard images and emotions. That is why Szilagyi’s poem is so powerful. He confronts what we already know and gives in a vivid immediacy that makes the experience as disturbing as a new and terrible revelation…tnr deserves praise for publishing the poem bilingually, and the work deserves the widest possible recognition and readership….”
- Walter Cummins, Editor
The Literary Review

“the new renaissance is one of the rare literary magazines to carry articles on such subjects as…international diplomacy and mental retardation. Moreover, tnr also emphasizes the visual arts….”
-Robert Taylor
Book Making, The Boston Sunday Globe

“the new renaissance is unusual in the field of literary magazines for [its] marriage of visual and literary art with politics and social issues…Reading [it] reminded me of the wonderful awareness that sharpened for so many of us…our sense of being citizens of the world and not just our block or country…the new renaissance was conceived in that expanding environment…when not just the essayist but also the poet and fiction writer tended to comment on the human condition.”
- Daniel Lusk
"Off the Wall", National Public Radio