Magazine
Which Way West

October 29, 2007

This special issue focuses on books and essays that help us understand the complex, chaotic West.

Feature

The Last Ride
Longtime hitchhiker Dev Carey tells Michelle Nijhuis about some of his best – and worst – adventures on Western highways.
Dev Carey and Michelle Nijhuis Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Six Good Places
David Oates ranges from the Sierra Nevada to Aix-en-Provence as he considers the particular qualities that make a place worth living in.
David Oates Essay Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition

Editor's Note

No frigate like a book
This special issue focuses on books and essays that help us understand the complex, chaotic West.
Jodi Peterson Opinion Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition

Essays

In Large and Sunlit Land
Peter Chilson ponders the parallel fates of two lovely and ravaged lands: The Southwest desert in America and the West Coast of Africa.
Peter Chilson Essay Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition

Conversation

Making a home for hope
Laura Paskus interviews Western intellectual, activist and writer Rebecca Solnit.
Laura Paskus Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Fall reading
A list of the most intriguing current books by Western authors or on Western subjects.
Jodi Peterson Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Literary trivia of the West
Test your knowledge with a Western literary trivia quiz.
James Yearling and Christine Hoekenga Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Mystery in Montana
Deirdre McNamer’s new novel, Red Rover, beautifully captures the unromantic realism of Montana’s small towns.
Bruce Barcott Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Looking forward, looking back
William Kittredge brings together new and selected essays about life in the West in The Next Rodeo.
Claire Dederer Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Another near-death experience for environmentalism
Environmental contrarians Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger jump back into the fray with a new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.
Brian Kevin Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
‘Men standing in the shadows began to weep’
Writers John N. Maclean and Mark Matthews look closely at two famous – and deadly – Western wildfires in their new books, The Thirtymile Fire and A Great Day to Fight Fire.
Ray Ring Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Wet words
Brian Doyle recommends the best reads about the Pacific Northwest, with particular emphasis on his home state, Oregon.
Brian Doyle Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Bloodied but unbowed
The Western novel is not entirely dead; it has simply changed a great deal since the glory days of Zane Grey.
Michelle Nijhuis Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard Around the West
Counseling councilmen; a very virtual “virtual” fence; Arizona vs. college students; trapped in a CT scan; trophy land; smelling like a dog; paying taxes with skis.
Betsy Marston Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition

News

Borders and saints
Latino writer Luis Alberto Urrea talks about the border and remembers the women in his family who inspired him.
Jennie Lay Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition

Letters

Deer yes, cows no
Jon Marvel Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Don't pop the cork yet
Michelle Harrington Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Risky dam business
Jim MacBroom, P.E. Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
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