A review of William T. Vollmann’s “The Dying Grass”
Books
Posted inDecember 21, 2015: Secrets of the Deep
The Corps of Discovery, after the apocalypse
Review of Benjamin Percy’s “The Dead Lands.”
Posted inDecember 7, 2015: Good Neighbors
Chronicling seven decades of parachuting into wildfires
A review of Jason A. Ramos and Julian Smith’s “Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America’s Most Select Airborne Firefighters“
Posted inDecember 7, 2015: Good Neighbors
The U.S. Forest Service: an agency adrift
A review of “Toward a natural forest“ by Jim Furnish
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
A subtle love in small-town Colorado
A review of Kent Haruf’s new book, ‘Our Souls at Night.’
Posted inNovember 23, 2015: Water Hustle
On the unease of violent people
Review of T.C. Boyle’s ‘The Harder They Come.”
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
A tour of vibrant skies of the north
A review of ‘The Northern Lights: Celestial Performances of the Aurora Borealis,’ by Daryl Pederson and Calvin Hall.
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
Knock-out punch
A review of ‘Contenders,’ by Erika Krouse.
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
The Greatest Generation at its worst
A review of ‘Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II,’ by Richard Reeves.
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
A marriage of unequals
A review of ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come,’ Alexandra Fuller’s account of her unsteady arc from Zimbabwe to Wyoming
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
Photographing Wyoming Prairies
A review of ‘Wyoming Grasslands.’
Posted inArticles
Can studying morality help Yellowstone’s wolves and bison?
Sociologist Justin Farrell plumbs the spiritual depths of environmental struggle.
Posted inOctober 12, 2015: The Rise of Lisa Murkowski
The self in perpetual motion
A review of “Spirit Bird: Stories” by Kent Nelson.
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
A look back at a Western artist guild’s colorful history
A review of ‘The Denver Artists Guild; Its Founding Members: An Illustrated History’ by Stan Cuba.
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
A visual artist finds her literary voice in New Mexico
Bev Magennis once covered houses in colorful tiles. Now she writes novels about murder in the rural West.
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
How to redefine — and defend — wilderness
A review of a new way to look at what’s wild and what’s not, in Jason Mark’s ‘Satellites in the High Country’ and Fred Pearce’s ‘The New Wild.’
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
In the barren Central Valley, a woman unravels
A review of ‘Into the Valley’ by Ruth Galm.
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
Mitchell S. Jackson finds another Portland
An author speaks on growing up black in 1990s Portland and countering his city’s hipster image.
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
Notes from the road to bestsellerdom
An author’s promotional book tour includes incontinent owls and posh but uncomfortable luncheons.
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
Overlooked author Lucia Berlin gets brought back to the light
‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ her posthumous book of stories, reveals a formidable talent.