Book Reviews
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'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 -
Of history and home
Poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko serves up a place-based memoir in The Turquoise Ledge.
by Laura Paskus, Sep 12, 2010 -
Fall books, from steampunk to conservation science
There's a good harvest of new books by Western writers.
by Jodi Peterson, Sep 12, 2010 -
Taking stock
Annie Proulx's memoir Bird Cloud and Gary Snyder's book-and-film project, The Etiquette of Freedom, unveil the private lives of two iconic Western writers.
by Kurt Caswell, Sep 12, 2010 -
Nature and cities in context
In Cities and Nature in the American West, environmental historians dissect the relationship between the urban West and the natural landscape.
by Andrea Clark Mason, Sep 12, 2010 -
How we got to this place
In Driving on the Rim, Thomas McGuane creates a dark picaresque novel.
by Cherie Newman, Sep 12, 2010 -
Wait until darkness
In his debut novel, The Wilding, Benjamin Percy captures our ambiguous attitudes toward the natural world.
by Jodi Peterson, Sep 12, 2010 -
Kind words for a much-maligned mammal
In The Wolverine Way, Douglas Chadwick examines an elusive carnivore and the scientists who study it.
by Brian Park, Aug 29, 2010 -
Breath by breath
Aaron Michael Morales delves into the challenging lives of Arizonans in his novel, Drowning Tucson.
by Laura Paskus, Aug 29, 2010 -
Truth, lies and poetry
Reading the short stories and poems in Sherman Alexie's War Dances is like watching an intricate dance.
by Lisa Song, Aug 15, 2010 -
Tough justice, hard fate
In Brian Hart's first novel, Then Came the Evening, people are trapped in a tragic drama partly of their own making.
by Tania Casselle, Aug 15, 2010 -
Of rivers, boats and baseball umpires
The essays in Robin Cody's Another Way the River Has range all over the map but somehow lead back to the river.
by Melissa Hart, Aug 01, 2010 -
Discovery and recovery in a Mojave casino town
Mary Sojourner's new novel, Going Through Ghosts, takes the reader on a journey of love, loss, abandonment and death.
by Alexa Mergen, Aug 01, 2010 -
Peril in paradise
In The Light in High Places, naturalist Joe Hutto considers Wyoming wilderness, bighorn sheep, cowboys and other rare Western species.
by Cherie Newman, Jul 13, 2010 -
An example and an antidote
In Imagination in Place, his new collection of essays, writer/farmer/poet Wendell Berry shares some of his honest wisdom and sharp-eyed observations.
by Kurt Caswell, Jul 13, 2010 -
Compassionate listening, fierce conversation
Photographer Meredith Ogilby and writer Corinne Platt interview 49 Western "heavy-lifters" in their new book, Voices of the American West.
by Allen Best, Jun 20, 2010 -
Life in a doomed dome
In Dreaming the Biosphere, Rebecca Reider looks into the story behind the failed Arizona experiment.
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Jun 20, 2010 -
Notes from a Wyoming sheepwagon
Laura Bell's new memoir, Claiming Ground, tells of her years spent working as a Wyoming sheepherder.
by Traci J. Macnamara, Jun 06, 2010 -
Stories from the shadow sides
The short stories in Aryn Kyle's Boys and Girls Like You and Me are threaded by themes of solitude and unrest.
by Karen Rigby, Jun 06, 2010 -
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
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