As our newest issue is heading out to subscribers, we have a few more bits of good news from NDQ headquarters. First, Wayne Harrison’s short story collection Wrench won the 2015 New American Fiction Prize and will be published in 2017. His story “Seasons of Doubt” is in this issue
Nancy Friese’s vibrant Lake Light watercolor on the front cover sets up the focus of this Spring/Summer issue of North Dakota Quarterly. You don’t need those big fat summertime reading lists. You are holding in your hands a wonderful collection of fiction, essays, and poems. The strangely haunting “Kindle and Scorch” by
By D. Seth Horton “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” Matthew 24:42 The hidden security cameras throughout our house record my emotions getting the better of me. At least I’m not alone. God is here. He folds my hands into his and says, “You
“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers…” Bayard Rustin In his still remarkably relevant 1927 book The Public and Its Problems, American philosopher John Dewey said this about art: “…The function of art has always been to break through the crust of conventionalized and routine consciousness.” This
Bill Caraher Muhammed Ali embodied the contradictions of the human condition in the most public way possible. He admitted that he was a greatest, but not the smartest (but other observers of boxing would disagree). He was engaged in the most brutal sport, but refused to go to war. Ali was
Bill Caraher Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora. New York: Orbit Publishing 2015. It’s summertime and many of us are traveling. I’m in Cyprus and Greece and NDQ’s other editor is in Germany. In fact, a “high-level editorial correspondence” (is this really a thing?) preceding this review involved travel delays, complications, and
Last month, the HathiTrust announced that they were opening their archive to text mining. The HathiTrust is among the libraries of digital books in the world and brings together the resources from hundreds of research libraries and provides access to this library though a partnership program. They also work with
This week’s Short Take invites you to visit the web pages of three transnational and highly collaborative museum projects: The Canadian Human Rights Museum (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada); The Jewish Museum (Berlin); and The Palestinian Museum (Birzeit, Palestine). The links are below. This is a digitally altered image from the Canadian
Janet Sarbanes I like to stand at the top of the hill in the early morning, gazing down on the bright green valley wreathed in mist, the sheep clustered close to the barn like a ragged cloud. They lie down after we’re let out and continue sleeping, but I breathe
