One of the West’s most beloved authors revisits Great Salt Lake.
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November 14, 2016
Our special, once-a-year, Books and Authors issue focuses on coming to terms with legacies of the past — and looking forward to where the West is headed. Featuring new writing by Terry Tempest Williams and Aaron A. Abeyta, plus interviews with Kim Stanley Robinson and Stephen Graham Jones, this edition peers deeper into questions that shape Western identity.
Feature
Aaron A. Abeyta on his family’s shadowy past in New Mexico
Current
A residential library for readers, poets and naturalists takes shape.
Author Kathleen Alcalá on learning to become an activist.
Novelist Stephen Graham Jones on how he transcends stereotypes.
Kim Stanley Robinson on climate change and the precarious health of the planet.
HCN.org news in brief
Editor's Note
Essays
2016 Bell Prize winner.
2016 Bell Prize runner-up.
This is not your typical library job.
Book Reviews
The North American owls and their landscapes.
Two novels offer perspectives on the allure of the last frontier.
A new book documents a catastrophe in Silver Valley.
Insightful new books in the well-worn genre of trail literature.
The season’s best titles for new fiction and nonfiction.
A reading list for understanding the region.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
Today's Featured Stories
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