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September 16, 2013
With some of the West's most insightful authors as our guides, each fall we briefly set aside the news to create a special books/essays issue and take a more reflective look at our region. This year's books/essays issue explores ways of looking at a landscape and locating ourselves within it.
Feature
Not all maps are made of paper. The best ones are spooled in memory.
Current
Fall brings a new crop of noteworthy books, both fiction and nonfiction.
Author Percival Everett defies categories and generalizations.
An interview with Richard Rodriguez.
Editor's Note
This special books & essays issue considers the ways in which we use maps, literal and metaphoric, to understand a landscape.
Uncommon Westerners
Bringing poetry to an entire state, one county at a time.
A natural and human histories expert of the West reflects on her work.
Dave Imus challenges the murkiness of modern mapmaking.
Essays
On a trek across the Arctic, a writer's map becomes a record of the journey.
Writer Joe Wilkins searches for truth in his grandmother's stories of the past.
Dear Friends
Keep up during our fall publishing break with continued coverage online.
Book Reviews
A book review of Brother and the Dancer by Keenan Norris
A book review of Son of a Gun: A Memoir by Justin St. Germain
A book review of Boneland: Linked Stories by Nance Van Winckel
A book review of Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country by Jedediah S. Rogers
A book review of Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley
Heard Around the West
Aggressive mountain goats and more oddities from around the West.
