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Book Reviews
Posted inNovember 1, 2022: The Futures of Conservation
What can conservation learn from science fiction?
New works by Western authors explore the brighter futures of our swiftly tilting planet.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2022: Going Under
We are all of us animals
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut collection roars, screeches and stuns.
Posted inOctober 1, 2022: Making Refuge
How can we live with the constant threat of violence?
Arianne Zwartjes’s new book ‘These Dark Skies’ considers the brutality of our time, its causes and how we might change it.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2022: Water Rights and Responsibilities
A new Northwest anthology finds both terror and magic in the darkness
‘Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses from the Gloomy Northwest’ explores landscapes and life from the Inland Northwest to the Pacific.
Posted inDecember 1, 2021: Visions of Wildness
The emotional lives of wolves
Biologist Rick McIntyre uses anthropomorphism to tell the story of his subjects.
Posted inJuly 1, 2020: 'I am here fighting for my life and future children'
A pandemic of both feminism and despair
In Lauren Beukes’ ‘Afterland,’ only women survive. Can they rebuild?
Posted inJune 1, 2020: Dissent at a Distance
When the ‘war on terror’ comes home
‘Acceleration Hours’ is an honest, rare look at American militarism.
Posted inJune 1, 2020: Dissent at a Distance
The U.S. is closing its doors to asylum seekers
‘The Dispossessed’ follows a family’s harrowing search for safety, and asks what new policies say about the nation’s long-standing ideals.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Party Favors
California’s Dream has turned into water nightmares
A new book looks at the Golden State’s history to understand its current water crisis.
Posted inNovember 25, 2019: Forever Mines
Grizzlies and the limits of coexistence
A rancher weighs the fate of wildlife and human encroachment in his new book.
Posted inNovember 25, 2019: Forever Mines
Photos explore the eerie and erotic of public lands
David Benjamin Sherry, Terry Tempest Williams and Bill McKibben celebrate what could be lost to Trump’s monument rollbacks.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
Joy Harjo’s singing trees and trickster saxophones
The U.S. poet laureate’s new collection of poems incorporates history and breaks time.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
Native nonfiction authors experiment with form in new anthology
In a collection of essays, writers defy expectations and examine place.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
The West is more than heroes and villains
In ‘This Land,’ Christopher Ketcham roams the West in search of both, and misses a lot in between.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
This season’s best reads
A roundup of the new and upcoming books that have caught our eye.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
Interview: On negotiating brutality and beauty
In his debut collection, poet Jake Skeets summons beauty through darkness.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
A Western author wades into murky political waters
The blind spots, omissions and caricatures of ‘Deep River’ fail to contend with the historical realities of the Northwest or the current political climate.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
Friendship and disappearance in the desert
A debut novel highlights the strength of women, even as they face trouble.
Posted inNovember 11, 2019: Storied Landscapes
From Russia with love — and salmon
A new book explores the borderlands of ‘Salmon Nation,’ from the American West to Russia’s Far East.