The Ghost Dancers
Written thirty years ago and now published posthumously, Adrian C. Louis’s novel "The Ghost Dancers" is about the violence that enables a father-son reunion. The Wilson family... Read More
Books We've Reviewed from University of Nevada Press
This Here Is Devil's Work
In Curtis Bradley Vickers’s harrowing novel This Here Is Devil’s Work, two wildland firefighters and a cattle rustler are thrust together when lightning sparks a blaze.... Read More
Heavy Ground
Norris Hundley and Donald C. Jackson’s "Heavy Ground" focuses on the events surrounding the St. Francis Dam disaster. On March 12th, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, and... Read More
The Desert Between Us
Phyllis Barber’s "The Desert Between Us" is a historical love story about the American West and the need for human connections. Set in the wilds of rural Nevada after the... Read More
Here Is Where I Walk
In Leslie Carol Roberts’s pensive collection of environmentally-oriented essays, the author asks “what is a walk in a forest if not a chance to fully and deeply celebrate... Read More
The Westside Slugger
Joe Neal served thirty-two years in Nevada’s state legislature. He was the first African American state senator in the notoriously unequal state’s history and emerged as an... Read More
Out of the Woods
In "Out of the Woods", Julia Corbett writes about nature and the environment around her with a sense of wonder but also a kind of self-reflective melancholy. She recognizes, for... Read More
With Distance in His Eyes
This carefully researched, absorbing biography documents the remarkable environmental legacy of Stewart Udall. The Washington DC headquarters of the Department of the Interior... Read More
The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain
What’s revealed in these stories, as so often in life, is that “the only thing separating well-being from danger [is] a line in the sand.” Don Waters’s second... Read More