Plus, readers’ favorite books about the region.
Books & Essays
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
An author’s West of dreams and nightmares
Malcolm Brooks mingles romanticism with pragmatic realities.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Best little bookstores of the West
Plus, readers’ favorite books about the region.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Forgetting we live in the desert
Rafael de Grenade on tough landscapes, writing as inquiry and climate change.
Posted inOctober 15, 2012: Are you a local?
Vagabond writer Craig Childs on 20,000 years of wanderlust
Savoonga is the place to be on the Fourth of July. The village is a cluster of roofs on the north side of St. Lawrence Island, a treeless hump of capes and dormant volcanoes rising out of the Bering Sea, battered by Arctic weather. The Native Yup’iks here celebrate the holiday with more gusto than […]