Jenny Shank’s new story collection ‘Mixed Company’ reveals racial fault lines in the Centennial State.
Alex Trimble Young
Posted inFebruary 1, 2021: End of the Line
Finding meaning on Joan Didion’s frontier
With the release of a new collection, the 86-year-old author returns to her old work and a vast, complicated legacy.
Posted inAugust 1, 2020: Infectious Ideologies
‘One hell of a testimony’ about mothers and daughters
Debut novelist Kelli Jo Ford writes a lyrical tale of faith and family.
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 inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
When post-9/11 racism haunts an American family
In Laila Lalami’s new book, a Moroccan-American family seeks a sense of belonging in California.
Posted inSeptember 16, 2019: "We can either wait on Mother Nature – or we can give it a shot ourselves."
Frontier myths crash into Trump’s border wall
A new book dives into the injustices of Manifest Destiny in the American West and its relationship to the 2016 election.
Posted inNovember 27, 2017: Profit and Politics
The divides that unify a Southwestern village
Stanley Crawford writes about rifts between Anglo and Chicano neighbors.