I have a soft spot for poetry, art, and music that creates a sense of motion through a landscape. I attribute this interest to too many hours looking out the bus window on my trips home from school as a kid or my more recent work as a landscape archaeology.
As readers of NDQ almost certainly know, N. Scott Momaday passed away this week. Obituaries and tributes are appearing in the usual suspects: New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, and ICT. He was a giant of American letters and a pathbreaker for Native Americans as the first Native American author
We’re excited to continue to share some work from the latest issue of NDQ. Molly Weisgau’s story “Little Fingers” from NDQ 90.3/4 invites you into the unsettling world of traumatic memories suffused with displacements and pain. It’s a haunting story that exemplifies the pressure that short fiction can exert on
The beauty of good short fiction comes through even when it’s bad. Or something like that. Max Blue’s story from NDQ 90.3/4, “How to Write Good or the Bad Story Ever” is a funny and awkward but somehow also touching piece of short fiction that embodies the best (and also
North Dakota Quarterly is proudly edited at the University of North Dakota, and life at NDQ world headquarters is shaped by the rhythm of campus life. We not only enjoy the assistance of UND students, but our editors are faculty either at UND or elsewhere. As a result, Lori D’Angelo’s
Over the past twenty years, New Years Day has become more than simply a celebration of a new beginnings, it is has come to coincide with Public Domain Day! And this year’s Public Domain Day is a particularly notable one because it finally features the arrival of Mickey Mouse (at
This was a good year for North Dakota Quarterly, and as 2023 winds down, it seems like an appropriate time to look back. First and foremost, the NDQ student interns finished the massive archiving project begun a half-decade ago. It is now possible to download and read almost every NDQ
It’s getting toward wintertime here in North Dakotaland, and this past week we enjoyed a couple of frosty mornings. These prompted me to share Matthew Brennan’s contribution to NDQ 90.3/4 which is almost on its way to the printer. It is a lovely reverie on the changing seasons that could
We’re really excited to share the cover of our next issue of NDQ 90.3/4 this week. The last of the proof edits go back to our publishing partners at University of Nebraska Press and, with any luck, it should be winging its way to our subscribers and contributors with the
Bill Caraher | The last few months have been a rocky one for the publishing business. From the unexpected demise of The Gettysburg Review to the roiling discontent about the uncompensated use of published books to feed LLM (large language models), it’s been enough to cause even the most committed
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