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Bucking the stereotypes: A review of West of 98

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
California chronicles: A review of New California Writing: 2011

Editor Gayle Wattawa has assembled an anthology of essays in New California Writing: 2011 that should intrigue even people outside the Golden State.

by Tara Rae Miner, Dec 12, 2011
A celebration of Cascadia: A review of Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest

Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest doesn't quite work as an anthology, but it features some intimate and thoughtful writing about the Pacific Northwest.

by Gretchen Legler, Dec 12, 2011
Tribute to a prickly icon

Both fans and critics contemplate the life and legacy of Edward Abbey in a special issue of the Western literary and arts journal Matter.

by Michael Engelhard, Nov 22, 2010
Bloodied but unbowed

The Western novel is not entirely dead; it has simply changed a great deal since the glory days of Zane Grey.

by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 29, 2007
Looking forward, looking back

William Kittredge brings together new and selected essays about life in the West in The Next Rodeo.

by Claire Dederer, Oct 29, 2007
Twenty views of the West

In Best Stories of the American West, Volume I, series editor Marc Jaffe gathers 20 very different stories by 20 very different writers.

by Shawn Dean, Sep 03, 2007
Sounding the alarm for nature

In Courage for the Earth, editor Peter Matthiessen gathers 14 essays honoring the life and work of Rachel Carson.

by Marilyn Stone, Sep 03, 2007
Western open space: Land of intrinsic worth

In the anthology Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works, a wide variety of authors argue that ranching is much more than an outmoded “lifestyle.”

by Linda Hasselstrom, Jun 11, 2007
Thomas McGuane’s lonely freaks

The powerful short stories in Thomas McGuane’s Gallatin Canyon prove him to be the New West’s answer to Flannery O’Connor.

by Annie Dawid, Apr 02, 2007