Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate (2004–2006) and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, is a retired presidential professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of dozens of books, including Cotton Candy (Nebraska, 2022); Kindest Regards: Poems, … Continue reading Excerpt: Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry
Julie Brugger was previously a research social scientist at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona. Her book Public Land and Democracy in America: Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Nebraska, 2025) is the … Continue reading Excerpt: Public Land and Democracy in America
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’re sharing a reading list that investigates and explores relationships—whether familial, romantic, platonic, or unrequited—through fiction, memoir, and scholarship. These books complicate the idea of fairy tale happy endings, instead attempting to depict the messy, genuine … Continue reading Reading List: Valentine’s Day
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Emily Carney is a former nuclear technician for the U.S. Navy and an accomplished space journalist. She is the manager of public engagement and social media for the Space 3.0 Foundation, founder of the popular spaceflight group Space Hipsters, and cohost … Continue reading Excerpt: Star Bound
Benjamin Bergholtz is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana Tech University. His new book Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel (Nebraska, 2024) was published in October. Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s … Continue reading Excerpt: Swallowing a World
Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest. She is a columnist for High Country News and formerly Indian Country Today. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Brooklyn Rail, McSweeney’s, and more. … Continue reading Excerpt: The Dreamcatcher in the Wry
Reviews The Boy Who Promised Me Horses Review in Big Sky Journal: “As much a personal quest to find himself as a haunting portrait of Prairie Chief’s too-short life—in all its joy and tragedy, pain and hope, freedom and sorrow—The … Continue reading News & Reviews
Oriol Ambrogio Gali is a research fellow at the University of Nottingham. His latest book Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800 was published by Nebraska in December. Indigenous Sacraments provides the first study of … Continue reading Excerpt: Indigenous Sacraments
Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the national award-winning author of numerous books, including The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 (Potomac Books, 2020) and Murder in Manchuria (Potomac Books, 2023). His latest book The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral: The Untold Story … Continue reading Excerpt: The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral
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