We are very pleased to open our autumn season of NDQ online by announcing the publication of a special print issue of NDQ titled Transnational. This project was co-edited by Çiğdem Pala Mull, Sharon Carson, and Gayatri Devi. Here is their opening collaborative essay explaining the intellectual energies shaping the issue. We’ll be
Sharon Carson Nicodemus, Kansas has a unique place in American and African American history as the first all-black settlement in Kansas, a community built starting in 1877 as a self-defined sanctuary for African American citizens seeking to escape from the post-Civil War white violence in Kentucky and elsewhere. Nicodemus today
Today, NDQ celebrates the analog by pointing you to The Card Catalog, a book just published by the Library of Congress. Here’s a great short review piece by Constance Grady in Vox: “The Library of Congress just released a book on the history of the card catalog, and while I
This week, our friends over at The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota and in the Department of English at UND are marking the 20th anniversary of the Red River Flood of 1997 by publishing a book that looks back on the impact and memory of this flood
North Dakota Quarterly is pleased to pass along some great regional arts news! The RedCan Graffiti Jam project of the Cheyenne River Youth Project (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe) is a finalist for this year’s Robert E. Gard Award, a national arts award given out annually by Americans For the Arts. Here’s
As we reflect on the 100th anniversary of the United States entering the Great War this week, we remember that World War I cast a long shadow over life in Europe, in the United States, and on the North Plains. North Dakota Quarterly documented the impact of WWI on campus
For the last decade or so, I’ve had a fascination with parapsychology. Some of this stems from the work that I did on dream archaeology many years ago and some comes from puerile fascination with things like Jon Ronson’s Men who Stare at Goats. So, I couldn’t resist reading Wladimir Velminski’s
The first six months of 2017 witnessed a number of key milestones in the history of popular, rock and roll, music. The albums offer perspectives on the anxieties of the last 50 years which whatever one thinks of the music or the artists remain relevant today. In 1967, the Velvet
Sharon Carson As this year’s University of North Dakota Writers Conference kicks off with the theme “Citizen,” North Dakota Quarterly invites our readers to a remarkable novel: The Sympathizer, written in 2015 by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen will participate in a noon panel and give the first public reading of
As winter struggles to give way to spring here on the Northern Plains, it means that it is time for the annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference. Started in 1970 as a gathering called the Southern Writers Conference of the Arts, the annual gathering of writers and readers has
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