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  • Daniel Orozco is out of the office

    Daniel Orozco is out of the office

    In Moscow, Idaho, Daniel Orozco writes darkly funny short stories that flirt with the macabre.

    by Brian Kevin, Sep 12, 2010
  • What lies beneath?

    What lies beneath?

    The likable characters in the three novellas in Jim Harrison's The Farmer's Daughter are all confronted by loneliness and brutality.

    by Brian Kevin, May 23, 2010

  • Pulp friction

    Philip Caputo's seventh novel, Crossers, amounts to little more than the literary equivalent of a popcorn flick.

    by Brian Kevin, Mar 14, 2010
  • Birders without borders

    Birders without borders

    In Jim Lynch's second novel, Border Songs, an eccentric, gawky birdwatcher works for the Border Patrol along the Canadian border.

    by Brian Kevin, Dec 06, 2009
  • The other Trail of Tears

    The other Trail of Tears

    British author Brian Schofield pulls no punches in his account of a tragic episode in American history, Selling Your Father’s Bones: America’s 140-year War Against the Nez Perce Tribe.

    by Brian Kevin, Jun 15, 2009
  • Why I ride the Greyhound

    Why I ride the Greyhound

    Every passenger aboard a bus becomes a citizen of the world, contemplating the Western landscape as it passes by.

    by Brian Kevin , Apr 17, 2009

  • In praise of prey

    In his unusual natural history book, American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, Steven Rinella reveals himself as a hunter with complex feelings about his prey.

    by Brian Kevin , Jan 19, 2009

  • Searching for something to search for

    In Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey, William Least Heat-Moon saunters across America, looking for the strange and the true.

    by Brian Kevin , Sep 15, 2008

  • Another near-death experience for environmentalism

    Environmental contrarians Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger jump back into the fray with a new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.

    by Brian Kevin, Oct 29, 2007

  • You ain’t from around here, are you?

    In Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed, Jim Stiles rips into the amenity-oriented tourist economy that has transformed his once-beloved Moab, but he offers little in the way of useful alternatives.

    by Brian Kevin, Apr 16, 2007

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