Book Reviews
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A battle for the land – and soul – of the West
In Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America, photographer Stephen Trimble tells the story of the controversial Snowbasin ski development in Utah.
by John Calderazzo, Nov 07, 2008 -
Living with trees
In Between Earth and Sky, Nadlini Nadkarni ponders the ways in which trees sustain human beings.
by Kyle Boelte, Oct 27, 2008 -
Tales from the heartwood
Working the Woods, Working the Sea gathers fiction, nonfiction and poetry on the relationship between labor and nature in the Pacific Northwest.
by Eric Peterson, Oct 27, 2008 -
On the Stegner trail
Philip L. Fradkin looks at the life of an iconic Western author in Wallace Stegner and the American West.
by Smith Maddrey, Oct 13, 2008 -
The creation of wholeness
Terry Tempest Williams celebrates Rwanda, mosaics and Utah prairie dogs in her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World.
by Jared Blackley, Sep 15, 2008 -
When war came home
Ivan Doig’s new novel, The Eleventh Man, follows a Montana man across the globe during World War II.
by Emma Brown, Sep 15, 2008 -
Only the scared survive
Joel Berger’s The Better to Eat You With and William Stolzenburg’s Where the Wild Things Were examine predators and the role of fear.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Sep 15, 2008 -
Alexandra Fuller: A fine line between protest and profession
Author Alexandra Fuller talks about the impacts of oil drilling on her chosen home of Wyoming.
by Jennie Lay, Sep 15, 2008 -
Book Notes
An owl and his girl, bottom-feeders and the world's greatest flood.
by Kate Niles, Sep 15, 2008 -
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 -
Fall reading
Jodi Peterson and Kate Niles spotlight new books on Western subjects and/or by Western authors, both fiction and nonfiction.
by Jodi Peterson, Sep 15, 2008 -
Cheewa James: Chronicler of the ‘Tribe That Wouldn’t Die’
Cheewa James digs into the little-known history of her own people: the Modoc Indians of southern Oregon’s Klamath Valley.
by Debra Utacia Krol, Sep 15, 2008 -
An unforgettable journey
In his second novel, So Brave, So Young, So Handsome, Leif Enger takes the reader on a journey across the American West, circa 1915.
by Janice Gable Bashman , Sep 01, 2008 -
Portrait of a threatened land
In Travels in the Greater Yellowstone, Jack Turner celebrates and fights for the preservation of an incredible but endangered landscape.
by Matt Goodlett, Sep 01, 2008 -
Living deep in place
Shopping for Porcupine weaves between worry and worship in its celebration of author Seth Kantner’s unique life in northern Alaska.
by Sarah Gilman, Aug 18, 2008 -
Another kind of hero
In The Legend of Colton H. Bryant Alexandra Fuller recreates the life of a young man who was killed on a drilling rig in Wyoming.
by Francisco Tharp, Aug 18, 2008 -
Riders and writers, hobos and fauxbeaux
In Riding Toward Everywhere, William T. Vollman describes his adventures rambling by freight train across the West.
by Jared Blackley, Aug 03, 2008 -
Catastrophe or nature’s process
In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens is an anthology of essays, poems and scientific reports about the return of life to a volcanic landscape.
by Andrea Clark Mason , Aug 03, 2008 -
Dreaming of a New Deal for nature
A review of Neil M. Maher's book, "Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement," which reminds us that to succeed, an environmental policy must reckon compromise.
by Jon Christensen , Jul 18, 2008 -
Solo journeys, life lessons
In the nine essays gathered in her new book, Hiking Alone, poet and artist Mary Beath celebrates nature from the point of view of an independent woman.
by Irene Wanner, Jun 23, 2008
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