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Book Reviews
In Rez Life, novelist David Treuer takes a nonfiction look at his own life as an Ojibwe Indian on the reservation.
by Lee E. Cart,
May 14, 2012
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Book Reviews
In Contents May Have Shifted, Pam Houston writes about a writer’s journeys, both physical and emotional
by Erica Olsen,
May 14, 2012
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Book Reviews
In Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains, Keith Heyer Meldahl brings the geography of the West to vivid life.
by Claire Peaslee,
Apr 30, 2012
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Book Reviews
A Good Man -- the third novel in Guy Vanderhaeghe's U.S.-Canada border trilogy -- thoughtfully explores life in that region during the late 1800s.
by Thomas Hayden,
Apr 30, 2012
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Book Reviews
In The Man Who Quit Money, Mark Sundeen tells the story of Daniel Suelo of Moab, Utah, a well-educated idealist who has chosen to dumpster-dive for food and live illegally in public-land caves.
by Chérie Newman,
Apr 16, 2012
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Book Reviews
The essays in Fred Haefele's slim collection Extremophilia, River Rats, Timber Tramps, Biker Trash, and Realtors are both casual and transcendent explorations of the West.
by Kris King,
Apr 16, 2012
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Book Reviews
Dagoberto Gilb's remarkable new fiction collection captures the lives of struggling Southwestern people.
by Jenny Shank,
Mar 19, 2012
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Book Reviews
Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild describes her arduous trek along the Pacific Crest Trail as she seeks to recover from life-changing grief.
by Melissa Hart,
Mar 19, 2012
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Book Reviews
Books about climate change tend to be grim reading, but William deBuys' love for the American Southwest makes his new nonfiction book A Great Aridness beautiful as well as disturbing.
by Laura Paskus,
Mar 05, 2012
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Book Reviews
The short stories in Marjorie Kowalski Cole's posthumous collection The City Beneath the Snow take readers deep into the subarctic melting pot of Fairbanks, Alaska.
by Michael Engelhard,
Mar 05, 2012
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Book Reviews
Cindy Bellinger's memoir, Into the Heat: My Love Affair with Trees, Fire, Saws and Men, introduces us to a determined, 60-something, chainsaw-wielding Western woman.
by Gussie Fauntleroy,
Feb 20, 2012
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Book Reviews
The anthology West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West assembles the thoughts of 67 Western writers.
by Charles Finn,
Feb 20, 2012
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Book Reviews
Lamb, Bonnie Nadzam's crisp, startling and psychologically intense debut novel, follows two troubled characters on a quest for redemption in the West.
by Jenny Shank,
Feb 06, 2012
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Book Reviews
Catherine C. Robbins seeks to go beyond the stereotypes about Native Americans in her essays in All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos).
by Cherie Newman,
Feb 06, 2012
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Book Reviews
Liberty Lanes, Robin Troy's second novel, tracks the lives of a group of senior citizens in a small Montana town.
by Phyllis Barber,
Jan 23, 2012
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