High Country News

The painful beauty of love

Melanie Rae Thon's short stories, gathered in her collection In This Light, paint a desolate and tender picture of the West.

by Kathleen Yale, May 15, 2011
Crossing hearts on Colorado's plains

Laura Pritchett’s first novel, Sky Bridge, perfectly captures the speech and rhythms of everyday life in the hardscrabble ranchland of the eastern Colorado plains

by Malcolm McCollum, Nov 14, 2005
Hear Him Roar

Andrew Wingfield’s tensely told novel, Hear Him Roar, describes what happens when Puma concolor, the mountain lion, collides with Homo dingus dongus, the suburban homeowner

by Staff, Nov 28, 2005
To die fighting: a review of Jesse's Ghost: A Novel

In Frank Bergon's new novel, a young man in California's Central Valley is haunted by the memory of his best friend, whom he murdered.

by Tara Rae Miner, Oct 30, 2011
'The music of men's lives'

In his new novel, Work Song, Ivan Doig describes the struggle between mine owners and union activists in post-WWI Butte, Mont.

by Kathleen Yale, Oct 10, 2010
Ghosts of Wyoming: A haunted past and present

The haunting short stories in Alyson Hagy's collection resonate with themes of loss, resignation and hope.

by Melissa Mylchreest, May 09, 2010
Reasons to persevere

In his novel, Blind Your Ponies, Stanley Gordon West looks into the heart of a fictional small town in Montana.

by Karen Rigby, Feb 06, 2011
Reality fiction: a review of What You See in the Dark

Manuel Muñoz creates a dark mystery inspired by the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's legendary thriller Psycho.

by Chérie Newman, Sep 04, 2011
Fall reading

A list of the most intriguing current books by Western authors or on Western subjects.

by Jodi Peterson, Oct 29, 2007
Mystery in Montana

Deirdre McNamer’s new novel, Red Rover, beautifully captures the unromantic realism of Montana’s small towns.

by Bruce Barcott, Oct 29, 2007