Isabelle DeGayner, University of North Dakota From a very early age, I was infatuated with the literary world. Before I could read anything other than picture books, I was writing my own with printer paper and crayons. Despite the fact that they never made much sense, I would insist that
A Review Essay from North Dakota Quarterly 80.4-82.4 by Kate Sweney Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim, Crochet Coral Reef: A Project by the Institute For Figuring. Los Angeles: Institute For Figuring 2015. The Institute For Figuring, a nonprofit education organization, was established by Martha Wertheim and Christine Wertheim to develop creative
North Dakota Quarterly had a problem. At some point during the history of this journal, we fell behind in the volume numbers and dates. Volume 79 had a date of 2011, but did not appear until 2012; volume 80 was dated 2013, but the last numbers did not appear until
People usually don’t associate popular music with science. In fact, most people see pop music as little more than a pleasant distraction whereas science represents the intricate rhythms that structure our world. Some folks know, of course, that Brain May from Queen has a PhD in astrophysics, Greg Graffin from
Our friends down at Iowa State at Flyway: Journal of Writing and the Environment remind us that submissions for their Notes From the Field Nonfiction writing closes on December 1. Notes from the Field is a non-fiction contest celebrating writing about vivid experience–whether abroad, at home, in your line of work,
This year history professor Caroline Campbell has been in Paris doing archival research, and she has written this essay in response to last weeks terrorist attacks. The horrific killings that happened in Paris last Friday night have devastated a city that many people love. The first time I went to Paris
In the aftermath of the horrendous terrorist attacks in Paris is has been difficult to read or think about much else. Fortunately, there are folks willing to help us think through the events in Paris. Philosopher Jack Weinstein has published a piece titled “Yes, the attacks in Paris were about
It’s University Press Week, this week, and North Dakota Quarterly reaches out in congratulations and camaraderie to all those university presses that fill our shelves with new ideas, exciting thoughts, and demanding calls-to-arms. To get into the spirit of the week, be sure to check out the American Association of University
It is our pleasure to release the first volume in the North Dakota Quarterly Reprint Series. The University of North Dakota and the Great War honors veterans at UND and everywhere by pulling together nine unique views on World War I from the perspective of the University of North Dakota
As volume 80.4 is almost off to the printer, we thought this cover embraced the spirit of the typesetting process. Digital tools have changed how we typeset, but they haven’t eliminated the tedium of making sure every page looks good, the anxiety that we’ll introduce some unnoticed error, or the
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