A sampling of the season’s best new reads.
Books & Authors
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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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In line at the Great Wall
In no-longer-so-imaginary future, parents and children are separated at the border.
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What are we fighting for?
Bell Prize winner: Through the trials of life, a young writer finds she’s fighting for our spirit.
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What to do if you had just one day left to live
Two writers contemplate their last moments.
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A nearly forgotten poet’s view from above timberline
Belle Turnbull found transcendence in the Colorado Rockies.
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Five authors on the joys of reading in the wild
Western writers contemplate roaming texts and landscapes.
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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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More books essential to understanding the American West
Readers tell us their favorites from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
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Insights from a climate oasis
Author Kathleen Alcalá on learning to become an activist.
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Native American literature’s shapeshifter
Novelist Stephen Graham Jones on how he transcends stereotypes.
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Recommended reading to take you into the next year
The season’s best titles for new fiction and nonfiction.
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Revisiting Idaho’s lead-poisoning legacy
A new book documents a catastrophe in Silver Valley.
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Science fiction’s warnings for the present
Kim Stanley Robinson on climate change and the precarious health of the planet.
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The deeper meaning of trails
Insightful new books in the well-worn genre of trail literature.