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TOM LYNCH WAS THE EDITOR FOR THE ISSUES
FROM SPRING 2014 THROUGH SPRING 2021
Spring 2014 (WAL 49. 1)
Special Issue:
INDIGENOUS WESTS: LITERARY AND VISUAL AESTHETICS
Guest edited by Susan Bernardin
| ESSAYS | |
| The Significance of the Frontier in Comanche Poetry | Scott Andrews |
| The End (of the Trail) Is the Beginning: Stephen Graham Jones’s The Bird Is Gone | John Gamber |
| “This Is Our Playground”: Skateboarding, diy Aesthetics, and Apache Sovereignty in Dustinn Craig’s 4wheelwarpony | Joanna Hearne |
| “Just by Doing It, We Made It Appear”: Dustinn Craig on We Shall Remain: Geronimo, 4wheelwarpony, and the Apache Scouts Project | Joanna Hearne with Dustinn Craig |
| It’s a Good Day to Bike: Indigenous Futures in Ramona Emerson’s Opal | Susan Bernardin |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Chadwick Allen, Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies; Jodi A. Byrd, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism; and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, A Separate Country: Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations | Joseph Coulombe |
| Joanna Hearne, Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising | Margaret Huettl |
| Beth H. Piatote, Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature | Nicole Tonkovich |
| Ralph Salisbury, So Far So Good | David Christensen |
| Liz Stephens, The Days Are Gods | George Handley |
| Michael Sowder, House under the Moon | Danielle Beazer Dubrasky |
| Stella Pope Duarte, Women Who Live in Coffee Shops and Other Stories; and Demetria Martínez, The Block Captain’s Daughter | Laura Padilla |
| Rudolfo Anaya, The Old Man’s Love Story | Sarah Stoeckl |
| Charles L. Crow, History of the Gothic: American Gothic | Amber Bowden Whitlock |
| Jennifer K. Ladino, Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature | Johanna R. Landis |
| George Venn, Keeping the Swarm: New and Selected Essays | Laurie Ricou |
| Robert L. Dorman, Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West | William V. Lombardi |
| Janis Stout, South by Southwest: Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History | Max Despain |
Summer 2014 (WAL 49. 2)
| ESSAYS | |
| The Chinaman’s Crime: Race, Memory, and the Railroad in Willa Cather’s “The Affair at Grover Station” | Julia H. Lee |
| From Mysteries to Manidoos: Language and Transformation in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse | Linda Krumholz |
| What’s So Critical about Critical Regionalism?: The Case of Fray Angélico Chávez’s New Mexico Triptych | Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of Michael K. Johnson, Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West | Bryant Keith Alexander |
| Review of Michael C. Steiner, Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West | Forrest G. Robinson |
| Review of Wallis R. Sanborn, III, Animals in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy | Maria O’Connell |
| Review of Dr. Gordon Haber and Marybeth Holleman, Among Wolves: Gordon Haber’s Insights into Alaska’s Most Misunderstood Animal | Anne Coray |
| Review of Don Rearden, The Raven’s Gift | Eric Heine |
| Review of Lisa Knopp, What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte | Bernard Quetchenbach |
| Review of Kayann Short, A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography | Evelyn Funda |
| Review of Kim Stafford, 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared | Jenny Emery Davidson |
Fall 2014 (WAL 49.3)
| ESSAYS | |
| Far from the Pastoral Myth: Basque Sheepherders in Contemporary Western American Fiction | David Rio |
| “The Sterility of their art”: Masculinity and the Western in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony | Lydia R. Cooper |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of Amaia Ibarraran, Martin Simonson, and David Rio, eds., The Neglected West: Contemporary Approaches to Western American Literature | Nancy S. Cook |
| Review of David L. Moore, That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Review of Michelle H. Raheja, Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film | Scott D. Emmert |
| Review of James H. Cox, The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico | Lisa Tatonetti |
| Review of Scott Knickerbocker, Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language | Robert Scott |
| Review of William E. Tydeman, Conversations with Barry Lopez: Walking the Path of Imagination | Jason Hertz |
| Review of Don Waters, Sunland | Andrea Clark Mason |
| Review of Gerald Vizenor, Chair of Tears | Andy Meyer |
| Review of N. Scott Momaday, Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems | Matthias Schubnell |
| Review of Mary K. Stillwell, The Life & Poetry of Ted Kooser | Scott Knickerbocker |
| Review of Jackson J. Benson, Haunted: The Strange and Profound Art of Wright Morris, a Biography and a Photo Gallery | Rodney P. Rice |
| Review of Evelyn I. Funda, Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament | Susan H. Swetnam |
| Review of Jean Morgan Meaux, ed., In Pursuit of Alaska: An Anthology of Travelers’ Tales, 1879-1909 | Eric Heyne |
| Review of R. Mark Liebenow, Mountains of Light: Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite | Scott Herring |
| Review of SueEllen Campbell, et al., The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science and Culture | Ann E. Lundberg |
| Review of William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest | Sharman Apt Russell |
Winter 2015 (WAL 49.4)
| ESSAYS | |
| John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta: Sensation, Hispanicism, and Cosmopolitanism | John C. Havard |
| The First Last Generation: Queer Temporality, Heteropatriarchy, and Cultural Reproduction in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero | Lee Bebout |
| “A New American Adam?” White Western Masculinity and American Indians in Dan O’Brien’s Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch | Peter L. Bayers |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi, eds., Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern; and Paul Stasi and Jennifer Greiman, eds., The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire | Judy Nolte Temple |
| Review of Don Lago, Canyon of Dreams: Stories from Grand Canyon History; and Lance Newman, ed., The Grand Canyon Reader | Hal Crimmel |
| Review of Neil Campbell, Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, West | James F. Scott |
| Review of George Hart, Inventing the Language to Tell It: Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness | Peter Quigley |
| Review of Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbuster, eds., The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place | Sarah D. Wald |
| Review of Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning | Susan Naramore Maher |
| Review of Philipp Meyer, The Son | Don Scheese |
| Review of Mark Busby, Cedar Crossing | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
Spring 2015 (WAL 50.1)
| ESSAYS | |
| A Chaotic and Dark Vitalism: A Case Study of Cormac McCarthy’s Psychopaths amidst a Geology of Immorals | Sean Braune |
| Social Space and the Suburb in Mike Cahill’s King of California:Mapping Race, Neoliberalism, and Narratives of the Past in the Southern California Landscape | Emily Cheng |
| New Frontiers for Post-Western Cinema: Frozen River, Sin Nombre, Winter’s Bone | Jesús Ángel González |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of Michael K. Johnson, Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West | Bryant Keith Alexander |
| Review of Stephen Miller and José Pablo Villalobos, eds., Rolando Hinojosa’s Klair City Death Trip Series: A Retrospective, New Directions | Martín Camps |
| Review of Brandon D. Shuler, Robert Johnson, and Erika Garza-Johnson, eds. New Border Voices: An Anthology | Cristina Herrera |
| Review of Claudine Chalmers, Chronicling the West for Harper’s: Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 1873-1874. | Jessica Dallow |
| Review of Stephen J. Mexal. Reading for Liberalism: The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West | Nicolas S. Witschi |
| Review of Linda Scarangella McNenly, Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney | Arnold Krupat |
| Review of Wendy Harding, The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Review of Bernard Mergen, At Pyramid Lake | Jeffrey Chisum |
| Review of Ken Lamberton, Dry River: Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz | Hal Crimmel |
| Andrew Gulliford, ed., Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology | Linda Helstern |
| Review of Julia Corbett. Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West | Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy |
| Review of Saúl Sánchez, Rows of Memory: Journeys of a Migrant Sugar-Beet Worker | Luis H. Moreno |
| Review of Joshua Doleẑal. Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging | Gregory L. Morris |
| Review of Tyra A. Olstad, Zen of the Plains: Experiencing Wild Western Places | Francis Moul |
| Review of Iver Arnegard, Whip and Spur | Laura Rebecca Payne |
Summer 2015 (WAL 50.2)
| ESSAYS | |
| From the Editor: Fifty Years and Counting | Tom Lynch |
| The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in True Grit: The Lovelorn Character of Mattie Ross |
Lloyd M. Daigrepont |
| Ruth Nichols, Sky Girl, and the Aerial Frontier | Fred Erisman |
| “August on Sourdough”: An Archival View of Gary Snyder’s Intercultural Poetics | Andrew Hageman |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Susan Naramore Maher, Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains | Robert T. Tally Jr. |
| John T. Price, The Tallgrass Prairie Reader | Matthew J. C. Cella |
| Katheryn Cornell Dolan, Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850-1905 | Daniel Clausen |
| Michael L. Tate, editor; with the assistance of Will Bagley and Richard L. Rieck. The Great Medicine Road, Part 1: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trail, 1840-1848 | Deborah Lawrence |
| Joshua B. Nelson, Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture | Phillip H. Round |
| Maxine Oland, Siobhan M. Hart, and Liam Frink, eds., Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archeology | Ann E. Lundberg |
| Manuel Broncano, Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands | Megan Riley McGilchrist |
| Cathryn Halverson, Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives 1839-1987 | Margaret Doane |
| Mark Asquith, The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories | Julie Scanlon |
| David M. Wrobel, Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression | Susan Roberson |
| David Gessner, All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West | Michael P. Branch |
| Kim Bancroft, The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher | Gioia Woods |
| Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence | Eve Oishi |
Fall 2015 (WAL 50.3)
| ESSAYS | |
| Performing a Strategic Transborder Citizenship: Delfina Cuero Remaps Kumeyaay Presence through Storytelling and Place Naming | Annette Portillo |
| The Only Cure Is a Dance: The Role of Night Swan in Silko’s Ceremony | Tara Causey |
| “The man was forever looking for that which he never found”: The Western and Automotive Tourism in the Early Twentieth Century | Clinton Mohs |
| REVIEW ESSAY | |
| “Journeys to the Interior”Christopher Cokinos, Bodies, of the Holocene; Melissa Kwasny, Pictograph; Lisa D. Simon and Brady Harrison, eds., These Living Songs: Reading Montana Poetry; and Mary K. Stillwell, Maps and Destinations | Bernard Quetchenbach |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| A. Jennie Bartlett, Elder Northfield’s Home, or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar [1882], ed. Nicole Tonkovich; and W. Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Struggle for Mormon Whiteness | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
| Scott McClintock and John Miller, eds., Pynchon’s California | Casey Shoop |
| David Rio, New Literary Portraits of the American West: Contemporary Nevada Fiction | Cheryll Glotfelty |
| Robin Varnum, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer | Mary Docter |
| Richard W. Etulain, The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane | Brett Westbrook |
| Peter Gough, Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West | Steven Garabedian |
| Miles Wilson, Fire Season | Gerald W. Haslam |
| Blake Allmendinger, The Melon Capital of the World: A Memoir | Linda K. Karell |
| Bethany Schultz Hurst, Miss Lost Nation | Harald Wyndham |
| Denise Chávez, The King and Queen of Comezón | Lydia Presley |
| Kim Zupan, The Ploughmen | Nancy S. Cook |
Winter 2016 (WAL 50. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| “Sensation’s Imperial Narratives: Affect in the US’s Democracy of Print, 1846-1848” | Jason Ahlenius |
| “New Materialism, Ecomysticism, and the Resolution of Paradox in Edward Abbey” | David Tagnani |
| “Laughing for Survival: Jokes of Nature and Jokes of Language in Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger” | João Paulo Guimarães |
| REVIEW ESSAY | |
| Review Essay “A Language for Vast Space”:
Mark Gonnerman, ed., A Sense of the Whole: Reading Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End; ShaunAnne Tangney, ed., The Wild That Attracts Us: New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers
|
Alan Williamson |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Anne L. Kaufman and Richard H. Millington, eds., Cather Studies 10: Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century | Kristen R. Egan |
| Evelyn P. Mayer, Narrating North American Borderlands: Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher, and Jim Lynch | Albert Braz |
| James W. Parins, Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820-1906 | Clarissa W. Confer |
| Molly K. Varley, Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity | Andrea Tinnemeyer |
| Paul Seydor, The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of Peckinpah’s Last Western Film | Leonard Engel |
| Mark J. Dworkin, American Mythmaker: Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta | William Katerberg |
| Dan O’Brien, Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land | Franz Burnier |
| Sharon Oard Warner, Sophie’s House of Cards: A Novel | Parley Ann Boswell |
| Gaynell Gavin, Attorney-at-Large | Becky Faber |
Spring 2016 (WAL 51.1)
| ESSAYS | |
| “Too Vast, Too Complex, Too Grand”: Writing Space in John Wesley Powell’s Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons | José Liste Noya |
| Resurrection after the “Blue Death”: Literature, Politics, and Ecological Redemption at Glen Canyon | Laura Smith |
| “It had all become a natural condition”: California’s Garden Movement, Land Eugenics, and Naturalization in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland | Paul Formisano |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| James Karman, Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet; James Karman, ed., The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume Three, 1940-1962 | ShaunAnne Tangney |
| MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, and Dayna Oscherwitz, eds., The Western in the Global South | Susan Kollin |
| Gary Scharnhorst, Owen Wister and the West | Bonney MacDonald |
| Paul Lindholdt, Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Christina Robertson and Jennifer Westerman, eds., Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice | Daniel Clausen |
| Paul Varner, ed., New Wests and Post-Wests: Literature and Film of the American West | Phillip A. Snyder |
| Andrew Patrick Nelson, Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969-1980 | Kevin L. Stoehr |
| Stephanie J. Fitzgerald, Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence | Michael H. Auterson |
| Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., ed., The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones | John Gamber |
| Rudolfo Anaya, Poems from the Río Grande | Sandra Dahlberg |
| Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey | Don Scheese |
Summer 2016 (WAL 51.2)
SPECIAL ISSUE: QUEER WESTS
Guest edited by Geoffrey Bateman
| From the Editor | Tom Lynch |
| ESSAYS | |
| Queer Wests: An Introduction | Geoffrey Bateman |
| Heterochronic West: Temporal Multiplicity in Bret Harte’s Regional Writing | Ryan Wander |
| “Left All Alone in This World’s Wilderness”: Queer Ecology, Desert Spaces, and Unmaking the Nation in Frank Norris’s McTeague | Jada Ach |
| “Say It Right, Say It Correct:” Documenting the American West in The Laramie Project | Tony R. Magagna |
| “Turrrtle”: Displacing and Recovering a Queerly Gendered Body in Helena María Viramontes’ Their Dogs Came with Them | Keri-ann Blanco |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Donnelyn Curtis and Lawrence I. Berkove, eds., Before The Big Bonanza: Dan De Quille’s Early Comstock Accounts | Cheryll Glotfelty |
| Arnold R. Krupat, Companion to James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk | Lori Burlingame |
| Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, eds., Oil Culture | Robert Lifset |
| Lawrence Coates, Camp Olvido and The Goodbye House | Joe Plicka |
| Richard Edwards, Natives of a Dry Place: Stories of Dakota Before The Oil Boom | Steven J. Bucklin |
| Kyle Boelte, The Beautiful Unseen: Variations on Fog and Forgetting. A Memoir | Kathleen Boardman |
| Annick Smith, Crossing the Plains with Bruno | Susan H. Swetnam |
Fall 2016 (WAL 51.3)
| ESSAYS | |
| “My dear Judge”: Owen Wister’s Virginian, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Natural Law Conservatism | Stephen J. Mexal |
| The Displaced Aristocrat as Tragic Hero in Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life | Myles Weber |
| “Fables” of the Material World in James Ellroy’s Los Angeles | Joshua Meyer |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Carmen Boullosa, Cuando México se (re)apropia de Texas: Ensayos / When Mexico Recaptures Texas: Essays | Lorena Gauthereau |
| Dominique Brégent-Heald, Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era | Camilla Fojas |
| Karen R. Jones, Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West | Lydia R. Cooper |
| Deborah Fleming, Towers of Myth and Stone: Yeats’s Influence on Robinson Jeffers | Terence Diggory |
| Steven M. Avella, Charles K. McClatchy and the Golden Era of American Journalism | Mark D. Ludwig |
| Donna Coates, ed. Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre | Anne Nothof |
| Tim Sullivan, Ways to the West: How Getting Out of Our Cars Is Reclaiming America’s Frontier | Carlos A. Schwantes |
| Eric Magrane and Christopher Cokinos, eds., The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide | Jennifer Lair |
| David G. Pace, Dream House on Golan Drive | Katherine Bahr |
Winter 2017 (WAL 51. 4)
| From the Editor | Tom Lynch |
| ESSAYS | |
| Up from the Ground: Living with/in Petrocultures in the US and Canadian Wests | Jenny Kerber |
| From Fields of Wheat to Fields of Value: The Energy Unconscious of The Octopus | Jeff Diamanti |
| Reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias Triptych as Petrofiction | Brent Ryan Bellamy |
| A Formal Spilling: Leaking and Leaching in Warren Cariou’s Petrography and “Tarhands: A Messy Manifesto” | Taylor McHolm |
| Salvage Ecology: annie ross’s Forest One and Happy Birthday Super Cheaper | Deena Rymhs |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Kenneth K. Brandt and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London; Joseph McAleer, Call of the Atlantic: Jack London’s Publishing Odyssey Overseas, 1902-1916 | Susan Nuernberg |
| Jan Whitt, The Redemption of Narrative: Terry Tempest Williams and Her Vision of the West | Katherine R. Chandler |
| Margery Fee, Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat | Jennifer Henderson |
| Jean Toomer, A Drama of the Southwest: The Critical Edition of a Forgotten Play by Jean Toomer, edited by Carolyn J. Dekker | Bill D. Toth |
| José Skinner, The Tombstone Race | Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán |
| James Terry, Kingdom of the Sun: Stories | Evan Lavender-Smith |
| Michael P. Branch, Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness | English Brooks |
| Shaun T. Griffin, Anthem for a Burnished Land: What We Leave in this Desert of Work and Words | Jeffrey Chisum |
| George Hodgman, Bettyville: A Memoir | Chase Dimock |
| Sharon Butala, Wild Rose | Megan Riley McGilchrist |
Spring 2017 (WAL 52.1)
Special Issue: Settler Colonial Studies and Western American Culture
Guest edited by Alex Trimble Young and Lorenzo Veracini
| ESSAYS | |
| “If I am native to anything”: Settler Colonial Studies and Western American Literature | Alex Trimble Young and Lorenzo Veracini |
| “Do We Reverse the Medal?”: Settler Guilt, the Indian Speech, and the Untold Side of the Story | Rebecca Weaver-Hightower |
| Beyond Possession: Animals and Gifts in Willa Cather’s Settler Colonial Fictions | Alex Calder |
| Animating the Indigenous, Colonial Affects, and “Going Native” in the City: Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles | Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne |
| REVIEW ESSAY | |
| Willa Cather Here and Now, Out West | Daryl W. Palmer |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Susan Kollin, Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West | Gioia Woods |
| Lydia R. Cooper, Masculinities in Literature of the American West | James J. Donahue |
| Sean P. Harvey, Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation Matthew N. Johnston, Narrating the Landscape: Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century |
Andrew B. Ross |
| Brenda Beckman-Long, Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic | Wendy Roy |
| Timothy G. Anderson, Lonesome Dreamer: The Life of John G. Neihardt | Pamela Gossin |
| Julie Riddle, The Solace of Stones: Finding a Way through Wilderness | Nancy S. Cook |
| Larry Watson, As Good as Gone: A Novel | Peter L. Bayers |
| Patrick Madden, Sublime Physick | Russell Burrows |
| Rudolfo Anaya, The Sorrows of Young Alfonso | Sandra Dahlberg |
| Ron Hansen, The Kid | Richard W. Etulain |
Summer 2017 (WAL 52.2)
| ESSAYS | |
| A Failed Uncle Tom’s Cabin for the Indian: Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and the Power of Paratext | Kimberly E. Armstrong |
| The Interconnected Bioregion: Transregional Networks in Mary Austin’s The Ford | John Peterson |
| Amid the Mockingbird’s Laughter: Non-Indian Removals in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Depression-Era Novels | Amy S. Fatzinger |
| REVIEW ESSAY | |
| Cormac McCarthy: Prophecy and Metaphysics | Nell Sullivan |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Jon Gordon, Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions | Nicholas Bradley |
| Jeffrey Bilbro, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature | Will Lombardi |
| Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue,Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature | Crystal Parikh |
| Ángel Chaparro Sainz and Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo, eds.,Transcontinental Reflections on the American West: Words, Images, Sounds beyond Borders | Stephen J. Mexal |
| John E. Carter, ed., Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream | Audrey Goodman |
| Ken Ilgunas,Trespassing across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike across the Heartland | Don Scheese |
| Doreen Pfost, This River beneath the Sky: A Year on the Platte | Doug Meigs |
| Richard Shelton, Nobody Rich or Famous: A Family Memoir | W. T. Pfefferle |
| Shelley Armitage, Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place | Cynthia Brandimarte |
| Melissa A. Sevigny, Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest | Hal Crimmel |
Fall 2017 (WAL 52.3)
Special Issue: Nature and Culture in (and Outside) the Academy
Guest edited by by Helena Feder
| ESSAYS | |
| Introduction | Helena Feder |
| “The Universe is Imaginative”: The Art of David Robertson | Helena Feder with David Robertson |
| The Culture of Arboretums, or, My Adventures with Tree People | Cheryll Glotfelty |
| Poetry and Place in Hawai‘i: Notes from a Writer and Resident | Eric Shaffer |
| Two Farming Cultures in the Sacramento Valley | Mike Madison |
| Nature Meets Culture in California’s Central Valley | Jan Goggans |
| When the Water Hits the Road: The Return of the Westslope Cutthroat | Scott Herring |
| Alchemy | Laurie Glover |
| Teaching with Wolves | Scott Slovic |
| The Move West: Gary Snyder | Alan Williamson |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Victoria Lamont, Westerns: A Woman’s History | Cathryn Halverson |
| Sarah D. Wald, The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl | Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao |
| Steven Frye, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West | Geneva M. Gano |
| Catherine Rainwater, ed., Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller: New Perspectives | René Dietrich |
| Daniel Glick, dir., The Search for a Place to Stand: Jimmy Santiago Baca and the Forging of a Life of Letters | Seth Michelson |
| James Perrin Warren, Other Country: Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists | David Thomas Sumner |
| Red Shuttleworth, High Plains Fandango | Kathy L. Privatt |
| Robert S. McPherson and Susan R. Neel, Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875, and Samuel Nugent Townshend and John George Hyde, Our Indian Summer in the Far West: An Autumn Tour of Fifteen Thousand Miles in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Indian Territory. Ed. by Alex Hunt and Kristin Loyd | Tom Huber |
| Michael Engelhard, American Wild: Explorations from the Grand Canyon to the Arctic Ocean | Jennifer Schell |
| Ernestine Hayes, The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir | Eric Heyne |
| Alan Weltzien, Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes | Jeff L. Smoot |
| Bruce L. Smith, Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places | Ashley E. Reis |
| Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, eds. Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art | Daniel Arbino |
| Linda LeGarde Grover, The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives | Gwen N. Westerman |
Winter 2018 (WAL 52.4)
| ESSAYS | |
| Resistance to Containment and Conquest in Sarah Winnemucca’s Life Among the Piutes and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? | A. Laurie Lowrance |
| Literary Didacticism and Collective Human Rights in US Borderlands: Ana Castillo’s The Guardians and Louise Erdrich’s The Round House | Tereza M. Szeghi |
| Wrighting the West: Leaving Marks in Frank X Walker’s York Poems | Jimmy Dean Smith |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Jennifer L. Jenkins, Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Southwest | George Porter Thomas |
| Matt Wanat and Leonard Engel, eds., Breaking Down Breaking Bad: Critical Perspectives | Maya Silver |
| Billy J. Stratton, ed., The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion | Eric Gary Anderson |
| Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary | Lori Burlingame |
| Alan Louis Kishbaugh, Deep Waters: Frank Waters Remembered in Letters and Commentary | Jolene K. Buehrer |
| John Nichols, The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest! | Cory Willard |
| Kevin Holdsworth, Good Water | Russ Beck |
| Cindy Crosby, The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction | Laura Jackson |
| Scott Abbott, Immortal for Quite Some Time | Johnny Townsend |
| Jennifer A. Smith, Magpie’s Blanket: A Novel | Kurt E. Kinbacher |
| Daryl Farmer, Where We Land: Stories | Rob Davidson |
| Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, eds., Building Fires in the Snow | Robert Lipscomb |
| Julie Hungiville LeMay, The Echo of Ice Letting Go and Matt Schumacher, Ghost Town Odes | Michael J. Beilfuss |
| Daniel Simon, ed., Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology 1867–2017 | Robert Brooke |
Spring 2018 (WAL 53.1)
| Introduction: Pasts, Presents, Futures | Krista Comer and Susan Bernardin |
| Genealogies | |
| The Indigenous Erotics of Riding Bareback, or, the West Has Always Been Queer | Lisa Tatonetti |
| Toward a Feminist Turn | Krista Comer |
| Anthropocene Frontiers: The Place of Environment in Western Studies | Sylvan Goldberg |
| Unhomely Wests | Stephen Tatum |
| Keywords | |
| Land | Cheryll Glotfelty |
| Mexican | José Aranda |
| Pedagogy | Randi Tanglen |
| Postwestern | Susan Kollin |
| Queer | Ryan Wander |
| Regionality | Neil Campbell |
| Settler | Alex Young |
| Sovereignty | Kirby Lynn Brown |
| Visuality | Audrey Goodman |
| Methodologies | |
| Lines of Sight in the Western | Joanna Hearne |
| Outbreak from the Vaudeville Archive | Christine Bold |
| Reviews | |
| Daniel Robert King, Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Evolution: Editors, Agents, and the Crafting of a Prolific American Author | Herb Thompson |
| Jennifer Sinor, Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe | Luke Morgan |
| Pete Fromm, The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Mozart’s Starling | Nathaniel Otjen |
| Jennifer Sinor, Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir | Gaynell Gavin |
| Melvin R. Adams, Atomic Geography: A Personal History of the Hanford Reservation | Max Frazier |
| Michael P. Branch, Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert | Jeremy Elliott |
| Brit Bennett, The Mothers | Kalenda Eaton |
Summer 2018 (WAL 53.2)
| ESSAYS | |
| Social Critique in the Writings of Clarence King | G. A. Starr |
| Modernist Mythologies: The Turquoise Trail Anthology and the Poets of Santa Fe | Michael S. Begnal |
| Little House in Albania: Rose Wilder Lane and the Transnational Home | Donna Campbell |
| “The seam of something else unnamed”: Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End | Neil Campbell |
| REVIEWS | |
| David J. Carlson, Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature | Jace Weaver |
| Sara Dant, Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West | James E. Sherow |
| Tadeusz Lewandowski, Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša | Julianne Newmark |
| James Perrin Warren, Placing John Haines | John Knott |
| Richard W. Etulain, Ernest Haycox and the Western | Daniel Worden |
| Rilla Askew, Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place | Lindsey Claire Smith |
| Marc Beaudin, Seabring Davis, and Max Hjortsberg, editors, Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Greater Yellowstone | Nathaniel Lewis |
| Mark Spitzer, Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West | Cory Willard |
| Michael Tate, editor, The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, Part 3: 1850–1855 | Deborah Lawrence |
| George Venn, editor, Beaver’s Fire: A Regional Portfolio (1970-2010) | Eleanor Berry |
Fall 2018 (WAL 53.3)
| ESSAYS | |
| The Pandora’s Box of Solomon Carvalho: Ethnic Transformation in the Age of Manifest Destiny | Scott Palmer |
| The Museum as West and West as Museum: The Micro–Politics of Museum Display in George Catlin’s Vanishing American Indians | Nilak Datta |
| Alternative Histories of the Old Indian Territory: John Milton Oskison’s Outlaw Hypotheses | Jenna Hunnef |
| “I Think a Look at the West Would Do You Good”: Queer Visibility and Mythological Refuge in The Price of Salt | Lindsay Stephens |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Michael Lynn Crews, Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences | Aihua Chen |
| Antonio C. Márquez. Volver: A Persistence of Memory | Elena V. Valdez |
| Phillip Garrison, What the Pig Said to Jesus: On the Uneasy Permanence of Immigrant Life | Louis Mendoza |
| Robert Coover, Huck Out West: A Novel | Alex Hunt |
Winter 2019 (WAL 53.4)
| ESSAYS | |
| “We Ain’t a Christian Outfit”: Protestantism and Secularism in the Formation of the Popular Western Novel | Ben Nadler |
| Sounding Silence in Sundown: Survivance Ecology and John Joseph Mathews’s Bildungsroman | April Anson |
| The Child and the Latina Immigrant: Reimagining the Southern California Imaginary in Héctor Tobar’s The Barbarian Nurseries | Sarah Ropp |
| REVIEWS | |
| Robert J. Bertholf and Dale M. Smith, eds., An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson
Robert J. Bertholf and Dale M. Smith, eds., Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson |
Helmbrecht Breinig |
| Linda Ray Pratt, Great Plains Literature | Matthew J. C. Cella |
| Nathaniel Lewis and Stephen Tatum, Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West | Jeffrey Chisum |
| Stacey Peebles, Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen | Nell Sullivan |
| Matt Wanat and Leonard Engel, eds., The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives | David Sterritt |
| Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border | English Brooks |
| Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gathering from the Grassland: A Plains Journal | Mary Clearman Blew |
| John Nichols, My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose | Russell Burrows |
| Christine Granados, Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children | Diana Noreen Rivera |
| Jonis Agee, The Bones of Paradise | Diane D. Quantic |
Spring 2019 (WAL 54.1)
Special Issue: THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC LANDS IN THE CONTEMPORARY US WEST
Guest Editor: Jennifer Ladino
| ESSAYS | |
| Introduction: Setting the Stage for Justice: The Politics of Public Lands in the Contemporary US West | Jennifer Ladino |
| Revisiting the Radical Middle (What’s Left of It)
|
Stephanie LeMenager and Marsha Weisiger |
| “Trespassing in sovereign territory”: Place, Patriarchy, and the Ideology of Public Lands in Longmire | Luke Morgan |
| Performing the Empty Archive: Feeling and Public Lands in the Bundy Case and Percival Everett’s Grand Canyon, Inc. | Meagan Meylor |
| The President Stole Your Land: Public Lands and the Settler Commons | April Anson
|
| #EquityOutdoors: Public Lands and the Decolonial Mediascape | Ashley E. Reis |
| REVIEWS | |
| Natchee Blu Barnd, Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism | Mika Kennedy |
| Michael Snyder, John Joseph Mathews: Life of an Osage Writer | Frances W. Kaye |
| Christian Knoeller, Reimagining Environmental History: Ecological Memory in the Wake of Landscape Change | William Barillas |
| Jeb Rosebrook, Junior Bonner: The Making of a Classic with Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah in the Summer of 1971 | Leonard Engel |
| Steven Frye, Understanding Larry McMurtry | John E. Dean |
| Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, That Guy Wolf Dancing | Kathleen Danker |
| Armistead Maupin, Logical Family: A Memoir | Robert Kellerman |
| Michael P. Branch, How to Cuss in Western (And Other Missives from the High Desert) | Paul Lindholdt |
| Gertrude Skivington, Echevarria | Hank Nuwer |
Summer 2019 (WAL 54.2)
Special Issue: WRITING THE GLOBAL WESTERN: CIRCULATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE AMERICAN WEST IN WORLD LITERATURE
Guest editors: Christopher Conway and David Rio
| ESSAYS | |
| Introduction: The Case for Transnationalism in the American Literary West | Christopher Conway and David Rio |
| What West? Worlding the Western in Hernan Diaz’s In the Distance | Neil Campbell |
| Captives on the Frontier: Perla Suez and the Cultural Genealogies of the Argentinian Western | Christopher Conway |
| The American West as a Space of Re-Inscription: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Polish Adaptation of Mayne Reid’s The Headless Horseman | Marek Paryz |
| The Norwegian Imagination of the American West as Presented in Louis Masterson’s Morgan Kane | Karoline Aksnes |
| A Basque Chronicle of Nine Months in the New West: Bernardo Atxaga’s Nevada Days | David Rio |
| Doomed Quests in the Old West: An Interview with Dominique Scali, Author of In Search of New Babylon | Victoria Addis |
| REVIEWS | |
| Amanda J. Zink, Fictions of Western Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950 | Cathryn Halverson |
| Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment | Linda Garcia Merchant |
| Gary Scharnhorst, The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years 1835-1871 | Bonney MacDonald |
| Anthony Shafton, The Nevada They Knew: Robert Caples and Walter Van Tilburg Clark | Jeffrey Chisum |
| Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien, eds., Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time | John Shoptaw |
| Gary Lantz, Heart Stays Country: Meditations from the Southern Flint Hills | Jim Hoy |
| Mary Clearman Blew, Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Jeff Metcalf, Back Cast: Fly-Fishing and Other Such Matters | Cory Willard |
| Denise Low, The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival | Lisa King |
Fall 2019 (WAL 54.3)
| ESSAYS | |
| The Other “Others”: The construction of the West in José Mallorquí’s El Coyote | Amaia Ibarrarán-Bigalondo |
| Foundational Myths and National Identity in European Transnational Post-Westerns | Jesús Ángel González |
| Make Settler Fantasy Strange Again: Unsettling Normative White Masculinity in Robert E. Howard’s Weird West | Travis Franks |
| REVIEWS | |
| Mark Rifkin, Beyond Settler Sovereignty: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination | Penelope Kelsey |
| Katherine Ann Roberts, West/Border/Road: Nation and Genre in Contemporary Canadian Narrative | Johannes Fehrle |
| Amy T. Hamilton, Peregrinations: Walking in American Literature | Beth Boyens |
| Charles J. Shields, The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life | John Plotz |
| Daniel Davis, Across the Continent: The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew J. Russell | Emily J. Rau |
| Tracy Daugherty, Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society | Don Graham |
| Michael K. Johnson, Can’t Stand Still: Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Neil Campbell, ed., Under the Western Sky: Essays on the Fiction and Music of Willy Vlautin | Justin St. Clair |
Winter 2020 (WAL 54.4)
| ESSAYS | |
| Property and the Ideology of Improvement in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don and California Travel Narratives | Valerie Sirenko |
| Homes On-the-Road, Terrorized Cabins, and Prophetic Nightmare-scapes: Emma J. Ray’s Unsettling Western Fantasies | Shelly Jarenski |
| Willa Cather’s Southwestern Grave Robbers | Carolyn Dekker |
| REVIEWS | |
| Jennifer K. Ladino, Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment, and Public Memory at American Historical Sites | Teresa Bergman |
| Annette Angela Portillo, Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories: Native American Women’s Autobiography | Alicia Cox |
| Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino, eds., Affective Ecocriticism | Patrick D. Murphy |
| Justin A. Joyce, Gunslinging Justice: The American Culture of Violence in Westerns and the Law | Marek Paryz |
| Laura K. Davis and Linda M. Moria, eds., Margaret Laurence & Jack McClelland Letters | Frances W. Kaye |
| Kenneth K. Brandt, Jack London | Earle Labor |
| Frank Bergon, Two-Buck Chuck and The Marlboro Man: The New Old West | Gregory L. Morris |
| Louise O’Connor, Wild Rose: The Life and Times of Victor Marion Rose, Poet and Early Historian of Texas | Sally Ann Schutz |
| Don Graham, Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film | Daniel Worden |
| Edward Lueders, The Salt Lake Papers: From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah | Shelby E. E. Grauberger |
| Kimberly G. Wieser, Texas . . . To Get Horses | Geary Hobson |
| Julia Corbett, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday | John Tallmadge |
Spring 2020 (WAL 55.1)
|
Carceral Colonialism in Arizona Territory |
Joe Lockard |
|
Variations of Time: The Crafting of Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs through It” |
George H. Jensen and Heidi Skurat Harris |
|
Survivalism, the Jeremiad and the Settler Colonial Utopian Imaginary in James Wesley Rawles’s Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse |
Brittany Henry |
| REVIEWS | |
|
Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide, eds., Cormac McCarthy’s Violent Destinies: The Poetics of Determinism and Fatalism |
Nell Sullivan |
|
Gina Colvin and Joanna Brooks, eds., Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a Postcolonial Zion |
Alicia Cox |
|
Terry Beers, The End of Eden: Agrarian Spaces and the Rise of the California Social Novel |
Lawrence Coates |
|
Kerry Driscoll, Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples |
Joseph L. Coulombe |
|
James Maynard, Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime |
Joshua Hoeynck |
|
Shaun T. Griffin, Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me: Essays from a Poet |
Bernard Quetchenbach |
|
Téa Obreht, Inland |
Margaret Doane |
Summer 2020 (WAL 55.2)
| Gunshots, Indian Scouts, and Train Robberies: Frontier Mythology in William Dean Howells’ A Hazard of New Fortunes | Margie Judd |
| Queering the Waters: The Subversive Potential in E. Pauline Johnson’s Canoe | Kristen Brown |
| Pretty Shield’s Thumbprint: Body Politics in Paratextual Territory | Amy Gore |
| REVIEWS | |
| Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray, eds., Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial | Regina Marie Mills |
| Robert Nichols, Theft Is Property: Dispossession and Critical Theory | Caitlin Simmons |
| Peter Quigley, The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts | David Copland Morris |
| Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee, eds., Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy | Raymond Pierotti |
| Leslie Miller and Louise Excell, eds., Reimagining a Place for the Wild | James Barilla |
| John Gifford, Red Dirt Country: Field Notes and Essays on Nature | Rodney Rice |
| Nick Neely, Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State | Alan Weltzien |
| Mary Clearman Blew, Sweep Out the Ashes: A Novel | Evelyn Funda |
| Rebecca Wigod, He Speaks Volumes: A Biography of George Bowering | Miriam Nichols |
Fall 2020 (WAL 55.3)
| Plotting Class: A Marxist Introduction to “Trio” Westerns | Jerry D. Leonard |
| “Young America” and the Anti-Emersonian Western: John Williams’s Butcher’s Crossing | Anthony Hutchison |
| “He’s a ghost. But he’s out there”: Borderlands Science Fiction and the Gothic in No Country for Old Men | Micah K. Donahue |
| REVIEWS | |
| Dean J. Franco, The Border and the Line: Race, Literature, and Los Angeles | Richard T. Rodríguez |
| Guy J. Reynolds, ed. Willa Cather and the Arts | Holly Blackford |
| Gary Scharnhorst, The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years, 1871-1891 | Nicolas S. Witschi |
| Donald Anderson, Below Freezing: Elegy for the Melting Planet | Daryl W. Palmer |
| Bernard Quetchenbach, Accidental Gravity: Residents, Travelers, and the
Landscape of Memory |
Ryan McWilliams |
Winter 2021 (WAL 55.4)
| History and Bakhtin’s Chronotopes in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop | Molly Metherd |
| Pragmatist Individuals and the Nineteenth-Century American West in
Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose and John Williams’s Butcher’s Crossing |
Gregory Alan Phipps |
| The Metahybrid Environment: Rewilding, Religion, and the Buffalo Commons Novel | Jerome Tharaud |
| REVIEWS | |
| Cathryn Halverson, Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly | Susan Goodman |
| Josh Garrett-Davis, What is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination | Richard Aquila |
| Erin Murrah-Mandril, In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition | Guadalupe Escobar |
| Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips, eds. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond | Cathryn Halverson |
| Renée M. Laegreid and Shannon D. Smith, eds. Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz | Nicole Gray |
| Frank Bergon, The Toughest Kid We Knew: The Old New West, a Personal History | Elliott J. Gorn |
| Charles Bowden, Dakotah: The Return of the Future | Maria O’Connell |
| Jennifer Sinor, Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World | Gaynell Gavin |
Spring 2021 (WAL 56.1)
| Solitary Walking as Feminist Practice: Mary Austin’s “The Walking Woman” and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild | Nina Bannett |
| A Body Without a Story: The Immortal Spectacle in The Ballad of Little Jo | Shelby E. E. Grauberger |
| “There Is No Plan B”: Anthropocene Architecture in T. C. Boyle’s The Terranauts | John Schwetman |
| REVIEWS | |
| Lee Clark Mitchell, Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre | Rebecca Trammell Couch |
| Justin Farrell, Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West | Maura Bradshaw |
| Steven L. Davis, ed., The Essential J. Frank Dobie | William Jensen |
| Alan Weltzien, Savage West: The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage | Paul Lindholdt |
| Cherrie Moraga, Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir | Sandra K. Soto |
| Joanna Pocock, Surrender: The Call of the American West | Alan Weltzien |
| Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem | Deborah A. Miranda |
| DJ Lee, Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots | Linda Karell |
