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  • No frigate like a book

    This special issue focuses on books and essays that help us understand the complex, chaotic West.

    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

  • A life of words and wilderness

    Rick Bass’ memoir, Why I Came West, describes how his 20-year struggle to save Montana’s Yaak Valley held him hostage, preventing him from concentrating on writing the short fiction that he loves.

    by Eric Peterson, Apr 14, 2008
  • The dictionary reader

    The dictionary reader

    What kind of person spends the whole summer stuck inside a cabin reading the dictionary?

    by Ana Maria Spagna, Aug 20, 2009

  • Healing the border with words

    Award-winning author Denise Chavez created the Border Book Festival, and founded a Cultural Center in Mesilla, N.M., to help heal the cultural wounds of the U.S.-Mexico border

    by Susan J. Tweit, Dec 12, 2005

  • John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures

    John Muir: Family, Friends and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison, collects well-illustrated, sometimes scholarly essays on the great naturalist

    by Staff, Feb 06, 2006
  • The sky is a crowded attic

    The sky is a crowded attic

    Novelist Andrew Sean Greer talks about how the West’s vast landscapes transformed his life and his fiction.

    by Jeremy N. Smith, Sep 15, 2009

  • Dear friends

    Rick Craig wins Nelson Algren Award; visitors; Bill Frank Jr. and John Echohawk win Wallace Stegner Award; HCN is looking for good writers

    by Jodi Peterson, Dec 11, 2006

  • The art of an alien landscape

    In Westernness: A Meditation, poet and scholar Alan Williamson examines what it means to live in the West through the eyes of the region’s writers and artists

    by Margaret Foley, Dec 11, 2006

  • A corps of visitors, not discoverers

    In Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes, the late historian Alvin Josephy Jr. has assembled essays by nine Indian writers who examine the Corps of Discovery from the other side of the cultural looking glass

    by Ed Marston, Dec 25, 2006
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