Book Reviews
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Loves, losses and utter disasters
In her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, Dorothy Bryant intertwines the stories of two very different Berkeleys: The California college town during the ‘60s, and the famously toxic open-pit mine in Butte, Mont.
by Tanya Lee, Jun 23, 2008 -
Selling empanadas, building a community
In The Empanada Brotherhood, his 11th novel, New Mexico author John Nichols pares his often-overloaded prose to the bone to tell a unique coming-of-age story set in Greenwich Village in 1960.
by Malcolm McCollum, Dec 24, 2007 -
No ordinary stroll
William deBuys writes poetically and thoughtfully about his own life in New Mexico in The Walk.
by Laura Paskus, Dec 24, 2007 -
The hidden history of a sneeze
Medical historian Gregg Mitman offers a fascinating history of the national allergy boom in Breathing Space: How Our Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscape.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Dec 10, 2007 -
A snake in the grass
After a rattlesnake bite nearly kills him, Tucson writing instructor Erec Toso ponders life – and death – at the edge of the desert in his memoir, Zero at the Bone.
by Ron Dungan, Dec 10, 2007 -
Literary trivia of the West
Test your knowledge with a Western literary trivia quiz.
by James Yearling and Christine Hoekenga, Oct 29, 2007 -
Fall reading
A list of the most intriguing current books by Western authors or on Western subjects.
by Jodi Peterson, Oct 29, 2007 -
A taste of ecological medicine
In Nature’s Restoration, naturalist Peter Friederici looks at the people and places involved in the restoration of natural landscapes
by Sarah Mazze, Jul 23, 2007 -
Home is where the compost is
Robert Michael Pyle takes us through a year in his small Northwestern community in Sky Time in Gray’s River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
by Michelle Pulich Stewart, Jul 23, 2007 -
Waiting for the tide
In The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch’s debut novel, a 13-year-old boy in the Pacific Northwest begins finding all kinds of strange sea creatures, and wonders if "maybe the earth is trying to tell us something."
by Annie Dawid, Jun 26, 2006 -
National Parks and the Woman's Voice
National Parks and the Woman’s Voice by Polly Welts Kaufman examines the role of women in the National Park Service
by Staff, Mar 20, 2006 -
Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods
In Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods, writers Cynthia Girling and Ronald Kellett examine ecologically sound communities
by Staff, Mar 20, 2006 -
With liberty, justice, and locally produced food for all
In Fields That Dream: A Journey to the Roots of Our Food, Jenny Kurzweil illustrates how agricultural injustices can be combated by purchasing food from socially conscious local producers
by Annie Dawid, Mar 20, 2006 -
At home in the valley
In The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill Cranes, Susan Tweit explores a remarkable Colorado landscape
by Renee Guillory, Mar 20, 2006 -
Exploring High Mountain Lakes in the Rockies
Exploring High Mountain Lakes in the Rockies by biologist Fred W. Rabe takes a detailed look at mountain lakes, describing their formation, geology and aquatic plants and animals
by Staff, Mar 06, 2006 -
Got Sun? Go Solar
In Got Sun? Go Solar, writers Rex A. Ewing and Doug Pratt explain how to carry out home renewable energy projects
by Staff, Mar 06, 2006 -
Friends in high places
In the essays gathered in Breaking Through the Clouds, Richard Fleck weaves in history, humanity and poetry to tell the stories of the mountains he climbs
by Pete Warzel, Mar 06, 2006 -
Big dams, big battles
In Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, Jacques Leslie profiles people dealing with dams in India, Africa and Australia
by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 06, 2006 -
Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes and the Trial that Forged a Nation
Coyote Warrior by Paul VanDevelder highlights the experience of Raymond Cross, a Mandan/Hidatsa attorney who fights for his tribe’s rights
by Staff, Feb 20, 2006 -
Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World
Science writer Yvonne Baskin’s new book, Under Ground, takes an intriguing look at the planet’s soils and sediments and their strange inhabitants
by Staff, Feb 20, 2006
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