To Acknowledge Distance By Chris Wells NDQ is proud to publish, in serial, Chris Wells’s novella, To Acknowledge Distance, which originally appeared in volume 84.3/4 (2018). This is part 2; here is part 1. 2. A Letter from Ferdinand4 Dear Charles, In this letter, which you will never read, I
Generous Hearts and Uncertainty* Rebecca J. Romsdahl This is the fourth of four essays reflecting on Egypt. Please also read the introduction to see how they are all linked. Enjoy! During our dahabiya (sailboat) tour on the Nile River, our travel companions commented one day that they felt guilty about the amount
To Acknowledge Distance By Chris Wells NDQ is proud to publish, in serial, Chris Wells’s novella, To Acknowledge Distance, which originally appeared in volume 84.3/4 (2018). This is part 1. 1. The Brink We had been driving for ten hours over the same road. Not far from the bridge, my wife
The Nile is Life* Rebecca J. Romsdahl This is the third of four essays reflecting on Egypt. Please also read the introduction to see how they are all linked. Enjoy! The Nile River is considered the longest river in the world. The Nile is formed by the merging of its two major
By W. Scott Olsen Just off Peoria Avenue and 11th street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on a clear midsummer morning when the temperature is already 83 degrees and the forecast passes 100, a sign for Meadow Gold milk and ice cream holds to scaffolding atop a large brick shelter, an historical
Last month, Paul Worley, whose translated volume of Tsotsil Mayan poetry was released as a North Dakota Quarterly supplement contributed a translation of Martín Tonalmeyotl’s “The Train” to well-known literary translation site, Asymptote. As the U.S. continues to wrestle with borders, immigration, and immigrants the act of translation becomes a particularly
Culture of Bribes* Rebecca J. Romsdahl This is the second of four essays reflecting on Egypt. Please also read the introduction to see how they are all linked. Enjoy! Our first day of touring Egypt took us outside Cairo to the historic sites of the oldest pyramids at Dahshur and Saqqara.
Migrants, Exiles, and Refugees: Reading Literature in times of Racism Gayatri Devi 1. When news reports started coming out last week of the sitting president of the United States referring to Africa, Haiti and El Salvador as “shithole countries” in the presence of other elected politicians, my mind recalled the
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