Western writers contemplate roaming texts and landscapes.
Books & Authors
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A man and his house of relics, in search of a self
What is the right way to treat artifacts that do not belong to you?
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A map of language charted by Navajo philosophy
Esther Belin is trying to shape a uniquely Navajo way of writing.
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Exploring rural California’s contradictions
Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel tells the story of a tough teenage girl’s survival.
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The border as a ‘weaponized’ landscape
Border Patrol agent-turned-author Francisco Cantú examines his experiences.
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How much do salmon still shape the Northwest?
A new book seeks answers about the future of the iconic fish.
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A fictional Gilead in the Northwest
Two authors imagine societies with draconian policies against women.
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How to know what we don’t know about natural disasters
A new book foretells America’s next devastating earthquake.
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Indie presses in the West
A selection of small publishers from around the region.
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New books to read this fall
A sampling of the season’s best new reads.
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A book in hand deepens the backcountry experience
What’s the meaning of lugging literature into the wild?
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The West, when women are telling the story
Do women write differently about wilderness?
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The Kumeyaay poet who’s disrupting nature poetry
Tommy Pico merges natural and personal history of the arid West from Brooklyn, New York.
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More books essential to understanding the American West
Readers tell us their favorites from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
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Why we don’t mention my great-grandfather’s name
Aaron A. Abeyta on his family’s shadowy past in New Mexico
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15 books every well-versed Westerner should read
A reading list for understanding the region.
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Adventures of a roving Bookmobile driver
This is not your typical library job.
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How to tell the story of the West, rural and urban
A residential library for readers, poets and naturalists takes shape.
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Insights from a climate oasis
Author Kathleen Alcalá on learning to become an activist.