A new collection of short stories offers a portrait of people on the fringes.
Items by Annie Dawid
A first-time novelist follows a quiet Montana man in the wake of grief.
In “The Animals,” a wildlife rescuer faces his ugly past.
Jon Krakauer’s latest book explores a flawed justice system that fails victims.
A review of ‘Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend’ by Erika T. Wurth.
Review of ‘The Possibilities’ by Kaui Hart Hemmings.
Review of “Backlands: A Novel of the American West” by Michael McGarrity.
Review of “Astoria” by Peter Stark.
Review of ‘Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman's Life in Oyster Bay' by Llyn De Danaan.
A review of The Days Are Gods by Liz Stephens
"Benediction" is Kent Haruf's latest novel about the beauty and hardship of life in the fictional eastern Colorado town of Holt
Nancy Wood's novel describes a rogue priest's spiritual encounters with the Calabaza people
Gary Hart's seventh novel takes us to another front in the water
wars, the decades-long dispute over damming southern Colorado’s Animas-
La Plata rivers to provide more water for the growing town of Durango.
Mormon pioneers crossing the country in 1856 meet with disaster in Sandra Dallas' book.
In his memoir, Matthew Gavin Frank takes the reader on a hallucinatory journey through the medical marijuana industry in Mendocino County, Calif.
The narrator of Madison Smartt Bell's disturbing 13th novel is a former member of a murderous, Manson-like cult.
In his memoir, Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life, Jim Kristofic remembers the challenges and joys of a tough childhood spent on the Navajo Nation.
Kate Niles' wry and compassionate novel The Book of John tracks the travails of an archaeologist named John Gregory Wayne Thompson.
A young writer named Steve Edwards spends seven months living by Oregon's Rogue River in his memoir, Breaking into the Backcountry.
In her second memoir, Raw Edges, Phyllis Barber leaves her marriage and tries to find herself.
Paul Chaat Smith's latest book, Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong, is a funny and painful collection of essays on the ways that Indians are stereotyped.
In her first novel, Jackalope Dreams, Western writer Mary
Clearman Blew gives us a tale of the contemporary West that rings
both sad and true.
Three new books about the West’s Indian wars –
Ned Blackhawk’s Violence Over the Land, Kingsley Bray’s
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, and Robert W. Larson’s Gall:
Lakota War Chief – seem to romanticize a violent
past.
In Rise, Do Not Be Afraid, poet Aaron Abeyta explores the
lives of the people who lived and loved in the long-lost town of
Santa Rita in Colorado’s remote San Luis Valley
The powerful short stories in Thomas McGuane’s
Gallatin Canyon prove him to be the New West’s answer to
Flannery O’Connor.
Steven Radosevich writes simple, painful, personal essays
about the changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest in his new
book, Good Wood: Growth, Loss and
Renewal.
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."
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
- Missoulians nearly lost access to their beloved community ski hill
- LDS environmentalists want their institution to address the Great Salt Lake’s collapse
- This Washington experiment could rebuild eroding coastlines
- Save public lands: Put solar on Walmart!
- Montana’s anti-Indigenous politics aren’t going away
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