Gayatri Devi Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd, eds. Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement. New York: The New Press, 2016. Pp. 226, $29.95 hb. Rule 43 1. In no circumstances may restrictions or disciplinary sanctions amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading
North Dakota Quarterly is very excited to announce the publication of NDQ 83.4 dedicated to the work of Tom McGrath. We’ve been anticipating this publication for quite a while now and are very excited to share parts of it with you over the coming month. For now, enjoy the cover
Sharon Carson North Dakota Quarterly is proud to honor the legacy of the Black Civil Rights movement this week, in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and in honor of the thousands of citizens who labored long and hard (and labor long and hard today) to achieve racial and
Over the last year, North Dakota Quarterly has begun to experiment with how it publishes. First came an expanded web presence, then came an effort at making available the digital archive, to reprint some of historically significant content from NDQ and to create online anthologies of important authors and topics of
In his essay “Reflections on Exile,” the Arab intellectual Edward Said noted that the difference between earlier exiles and those of our own times is “scale”: “our age—with its modern warfare, imperialism, and the quasi-theological ambitions of totalitarian rulers—is indeed the age of the refugee, the displaced person, and mass
Sharon Carson Our thoughts are with colleagues and friends in Istanbul and Turkey this week. Coincidentally, NDQ had planned a Short Take post for today on an intriguing project working with acoustic “spatial” reconstruction and representation of Byzantine era liturgical music in Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya in Turkish). Hagia Sophia is
Much of the northern United States has been in the grip of snow and freezing temperatures. While this sets the mood for various winter holidays, it makes many of us long for sunnier and warmer climes! For those who don’t have the luxury to travel to sandy beaches and blue
It’s that time of year again. No, not the Nobel Prize awards. That’s so yesterday. But the Pushcart Prizes, according to its website, “the most honored literary project in America.” The annual publication represents the best stories, poetry and essays submitted by editors of small presses and little magazines. A
This month the world lost Sharon Jones, one of the pioneers of the soul and funk revival. I had to the great good fortune of seeing her in concert a few years back with her band the Dap-Kings, and it ranks as one of my favorite shows. Whether recorded or
Wishing everyone who observes, a lovely Thanksgiving. In our house, the tradition is to listen to Bill Evans’ great 1962 album Waltz for Debby. Recorded in June 1961 over a long Sunday at the famed Village Vanguard in New York, the album demonstrates the remarkable interplay between Evans and bassist
