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November 13, 2017
In a break from covering the news, our annual Books & Authors special issue offers perspective by taking a look at the complicated West through a different lens: literature. Essays, excerpts, author profiles, Q&As and book reviews tackle grief, oddities and hard questions.
Feature
Current
HCN.org news in brief.
Border Patrol agent-turned-author Francisco Cantú examines his experiences.
Esther Belin is trying to shape a uniquely Navajo way of writing.
Tommy Pico merges natural and personal history of the arid West from Brooklyn, New York.
In no-longer-so-imaginary future, parents and children are separated at the border.
Editor's Note
Western authors offer different lenses through which to understand our region.
Essays
Bell Prize winner: Through the trials of life, a young writer finds she’s fighting for our spirit.
2017 Bell Prize runner-up: A writer reflects on salmon as symbol.
What’s the meaning of lugging literature into the wild?
Two writers contemplate their last moments.
Perspective
Western writers contemplate roaming texts and landscapes.
Conversation
Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel tells the story of a tough teenage girl’s survival.
Do women write differently about wilderness?
Book Reviews
An artist portrays the greens of mountain lakes and oranges of sandstone arches.
A sampling of the season’s best new reads.
A selection of small publishers from around the region.
Belle Turnbull found transcendence in the Colorado Rockies.
A new book foretells America’s next devastating earthquake.
Two authors imagine societies with draconian policies against women.
A new book seeks answers about the future of the iconic fish.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem around the region.
Dear Friends
Visits from family, new visitors and saying farewell to old friends.
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