some friendly words about newLISP : http://lmf-ramblings.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.html
Very nice write-up.
Newlisp is recently mentioned in positive context in following blog posts as well:
http://blog.fogus.me/2011/08/14/perlis-languages/
http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/08/survey-of-syntactic-extension.html