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WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Spring 2010 (vol. 45, no. 1)
| ESSAYS | |
| Locating the Modern Mexican in Josefina Niggli’s Step Down, Elder Brother | Emily Lutenski |
| “Truer ’n Hell”: Lies, Capitalism, and Cultural Imperialism in Owen Wister’s The Virginian, B. M. Bower’s The Happy Family, and Mourning Dove’s Cogewea | Sara Humphreys |
| Stepping onto the Yakama Reservation: Land and Water Rights in Raymond Carver’s “Sixty Acres” | Chad Wriglesworth |
| BOOK REVIEWS | REVIEWER |
| Joshua David Bellin, Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824–1932 | Katherine Young Evans |
| Sherman Alexie, War Dances | Loree Westron |
| John Lloyd Purdy, Writing Indian, Native Conversations | Stuart Christie |
| Paul Chaat Smith, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong | Bryan Russell |
| Stuart Christie, Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature | Linda Lizut Helstern |
| John Bierhorst, transl., Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex “Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España” | Keri Holt |
| Patricia Nelson Limerick, Andrew Cowell, and Sharon K. Collinge, eds., Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures | Corey Lee Lewis |
| Rudolfo A. Anaya, Rudolfo Anaya: The Essays | Francisco A. Lomelí |
| Donald Pizer, American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather | Charles L. Crow |
| Keith Newlin, Hamlin Garland: A Life | Philip Joseph |
| Joan Kane, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife | Eric Heyne |
| Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers, Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend | Jan Cerney |
| Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Jack London’s Racial Lives: A Critical Biography | Gary Scharnhorst |
| Nancy Lord, Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life | Ann Ronald |
| Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas | Daniel D. Arreola |
| Patrick D. Murphy, Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries, and Fields | Shane Billings |
| John Daniel, The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature | Glen Love |
| Linda M. Hasselstrom, No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life | Kerry Fine |
| Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna | Pamela Pierce |
| Scott Slovic, Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility | Linda Underhill |
Summer 2010 (vol. 45, no. 2)
| ESSAYS | |
| “It was all a hard, fast ride that ended in the mud”: Deconstructing the Myth of the Cowboy in Annie Proulx’s Close Range: Wyoming Stories | Katie O. Arosteguy |
| Haunting and History in Louis Sachar’s Holes | Kirsten Møllegaard |
| Down the Santa Fe Trail to the City upon a Hill | Andrew Menard |
| BOOK REVIEWS | REVIEWER |
| Robert McKee Irwin, Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico’s Northwest Borderlands | David Peterson |
| Rebecca M. Schreiber, Cold War Exiles in Mexico: U.S. Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance | Helen Delpar |
| Ann Putnam, Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter’s Last Goodbye | Nancy Lord |
| Jimmy Santiago Baca, A Glass of Water | Sean McCray |
| Michelle Burnham, A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson | Raúl Coronado |
| William H. Katerberg, Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction | David Mogen |
| Stephanie C. Palmer, Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class | Matthew J. Lavin |
| Jim Charles, Reading, Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday, and Robert M. Nelson, Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony”: The Recovery of Tradition | Lee Schweninger |
| Patrick Dobson, Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains | Susan Naramore Maher |
| Rinda West, Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land | Mark C. Long |
| Brian Booth and Glen A. Love, Davis Country: H. L. Davis’s Northwest | Paul Crumbley |
| Mike Barenti, Kayaking Alone | Jeffrey McCarthy |
| Steven L. Davis, J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind | Verne Huser |
| Eric Gardner, Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature | Michael K. Johnson |
| Susan Sleeper-Smith, Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives | Kym S. Rice |
| Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature, and Victoria Smith, Captive Arizona, 1851–1900 | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
| Kenneth Scambray, Queen Calafia’s Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel | Charles Scruggs |
| Dorothy Allred Solomon, In My Father’s House: A Memoir of Polygamy | Bonnie Bastian Moore |
| Louise Erdrich, Shadow Tag | James Cihlar |
Fall 2010 (vol. 45, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | |
| Cultural Resistance and “Playing Indian” in Thomas King’s “Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre” |
Timothy Glenn |
| “Terrible Women”: Gender, Platonism, and Christianity in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House | Anne Baker |
| Unmapping Adventure: Sewing Resistance in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms | T. Christine Jespersen |
| BOOK REVIEWS | REVIEWER |
| Shirley A. Leckie and Nancy J. Parezo, eds., Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West | Andrea G. Radke-Moss |
| Joan Stauffer, Behind Every Man: The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell, and Candace C. Kant, ed., Dolly & Zane Grey: Letters from a Marriage | David Fenimore |
| Lucy Marks and David Porter, Seeking Life Whole: Willa Cather and the Brewsters | Laura Winters |
| Kimberli A. Lee, ed., “I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter”: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940–1965 | Katherine Bahr |
| Daniel H. Usner Jr., Indian Work | Jeanette Palmer |
| N. Scott Momaday, The Journey of Tai-me | William M. Clements |
| Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears | Erin Murrah-Mandril |
| John Morán González, Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature | Juan Alonzo |
| Conrado Espinoza, Under the Texas Sun/El Sol de Texas | Maria O’Connell |
| Américo Paredes, Cantos de adolescencia/Songs of Youth (1932–1937) | Grisel Y. Acosta |
| Silvio Sirias, Meet Me under the Ceiba | Lucrecia Guerrero |
| Daryl J. Maeda, Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America | Moon-Ho Jung |
| Brian Flota, A Survey of Multicultural San Francisco Bay Literature, 1955–1979: Ishmael Reed, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and the Beat Generation | Brett C. Sigurdson |
| Eileen O’Keefe McVicker and Barbara Scot, Child of Steens Mountain, and Robin Cody, Another Way the River Has: Taut True Tales from the Northwest | J. T. Bushnell |
| James Karman, ed., The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume One, 1890–1930 | Tim Hunt |
| Dan Aadland, In Trace of TR: A Montana Hunter’s Journey, and Robert Root, Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now | Ann Ronald |
| Nguyen Qúi Dú’c, Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family | Sophie Quinn-Judge |
| Lisa Jones, Broken: A Love Story | Summer Wood |
| Lucha Corpi, Death at Solstice: A Gloria Damasco Mystery | María Herrera-Sobek |
| Kent Meyers, Twisted Tree | Robert Headley |
| Pamela Carter Joern, The Plain Sense of Things | Tyler S. Holzer |
Winter 2011 (vol. 45, no. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| Practicing Sovereignty in Greg Sarris’s Watermelon Nights | Reginald Dyck |
| Clean Hands and an Iron Face: Frontier Masculinity and Boston Manliness in The Rise of Silas Lapham |
Matthew J. Lavin |
| The Sentimental Politics of Language: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s and José María Sánchez’s Texan Stories |
Marissa López |
| ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
| The Mark Twain Biography Wars | Charles L. Crow |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| John Beck, Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature | Bill D. Toth |
| Leonard Engel, ed., A Violent Conscience: Essays on the Fiction of James Lee Burke | Jon A. Jackson |
| Megan Riley McGilchrist, The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner: Myths of the Frontier | Stacey Peebles |
| Carol Sklenicka, Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life | Chad Wriglesworth |
| Frances McCue, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo | Kim Stafford |
| Phyllis Morgan, N. Scott Momaday: Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions: An Annotated Bio-Bibliography | Larry Evers |
| James R. Boylston and Allen J. Wiener, David Crockett in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Poor Man’s Friend, with Collected Correspondence, Selected Speeches, and Circulars | Paula Marks |
| William Haywood Henderson, Native | Elizabeth Abele |
| Tim Z. Hernandez, Breathing, In Dust | Gerald Haslam |
| Steven L. Davis, J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind | Tom Pilkington |
| Michelle Wick Patterson, Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African American Music | Martha Viehmann |
| Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken, Homelands: How Women Made the West | Sue Armitage |
| Maria Melendez, Flexible Bones | Cynthia Hogue |
| Angie Chau, Quiet As They Come | Christopher Schaberg |
| David Toscana, The Last Reader | Beth Pollack |
Spring 2011 (vol. 46, no. 1)
| ESSAYS | |
| Sacred Spaces, Profane “Manufactories”: Willa Cather’s Split Artist in The Professor’s House and My Mortal Enemy | Kim Vanderlaan |
| “A Terrible Genius”: Robinson Jeffers’s Art of Narrative | Robert Zaller |
| The Quilt as (Non-)Commodity in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.’s The Star Quilter | Deborah Weagel |
| ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
| Crossing Territories: New Spaces in Six Works of Fiction | Manuel Muñoz |
| New West or Old? Men and Masculinity in Recent Fiction by Western American Men |
David J. Peterson |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of J. M. Ferguson Jr., Westering: A Novel in Stories | Martin Bucco |
| Review of John Addiego, Tears of the Mountain | Brett Garcia Myhren |
| Review of Lisa Knopp, Interior Places | Gaynell Gavin |
| Review of Ann Ronald, Friendly Fallout 1953 | David Mazel |
| Review of Jim Dwyer, Where the Wild Books Are: A Field Guide to Ecofiction | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Review of Lowell Jaeger, ed., New Poets of the American West | Peggy Shumaker |
| Review of Bill Sherwonit, Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness | Jennifer Schell |
| Review of John J. Murphy, Françoise Palleau-Papin, and Robert Thacker, eds., Willa Cather: A Writer’s Worlds | Timothy W. Bintrim |
| Review of Joanna Levin, Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 | Brett C. Sigurdson |
| Review of Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson,Mary Austin and the American West | Karen S. Langlois |
| Review of Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki, eds., The Philosophy of the Western |
Brian McCuskey |
| Review of Frank Maynard, Cowboy’s Lament: A Life on the Open Range | Richard Hutson |
| Review of Linwood Laughy, The Fifth Generation: A Nez Perce Tale | Loree Westron |
Summer 2011 (vol. 46, no. 2)
| ESSAYS | |
| The Fat Man on Snow Dome: Surprise and Sense of Place (or, Reading Laurie Ricou’s David Wagoner) | Nicholas Bradley |
| Untidy Borders: Eamonn Wall’s Negotiation of the American West | Susan Naramore Maher |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence Inhabits Film Noir | Alan P. Barr |
| ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
| Down on the Farm: Memoirs and Nonfiction on Agricultural Lives | Evelyn I. Funda |
| Book History Comes West | Tara Penry |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of Thomas McGuane, Driving on the Rim | Stephen P. Cook |
| Review of Richard C. Rattenbury, Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo | Demetrius W. Pearson |
| Review of Annie Proulx, Bird Cloud | Matt Low |
| Review of Monica Perales and Raúl A. Ramos, eds., Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas | Cordelia E. Barrera |
| Review of Jordan Stouck, ed., “Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun”: Canadian Publishing and the Correspondence of Sinclair Ross, 1933–1986. | Dick Harrison |
| Review of Flannery Burke, From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan’s | Tyler Nickl |
| Review of David Mogen, Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Review of Ruth McLaughlin, Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the Western High Plains and of Mary Zeiss Stange, Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch | Linda M. Hasselstrom |
| Review of Graciela Limón, The River Flows North | Elisa Bordin |
| Review of Phillip Connors, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout | John Charles Gilmore |
Fall 2011 (vol. 46, no. 3):
Special Issue: Western Suburbia
| ESSAYS | |
| Special Issue on Western Suburbia | Neil Campbell |
| “An assemblage of habits”: D. J. Waldie and Neil Campbell—A Suburban Conversation | D. J. Waldie and Neil Campbell |
| Space, Gender, Race: Josephine Miles and the Poetics of the California Suburbs | Jo Gill |
| Lakewood: Portraits of a Sacred American Suburb | Tom M. Johnson |
| Tract Homes on the Range: The Suburbanization of the American West | Robert Bennett |
| “A kingdom of a thousand princes but no kings”:The Postsuburban Network in Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs | Tim Foster |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of Lawrence Culver, The Frontier of Leisure in California and the Shaping of Modern America | William Philpott |
| Review of John Addiego, Barbara Berglund, Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846–1906 | Raymond W. Rast |
| Review of Char Miller, ed., Cities and Nature in the American West | Lawrence Culver |
| Review of Kevin R. McNamara, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles | Jaquelin Pelzer |
| Review of Susan Suntree, Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California | Brett Garcia Myhren |
| Review of Raymond D. Gastil and Barnett Singer, The Pacific Northwest: Growth of a Regional Identity | Stephen Trimble |
| Review of William R. Handley, ed., The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon | Michael K. Johnson |
| Review of Jim Reese, ghost on 3rd | David Cremean |
| Review of Krista Comer, Surfer Girls in the New World Order | Robert Bennett |
Winter 2012 (vol. 46, no. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| John Russell Bartlett’s Literary Borderlands: Ethnology, War, and the United States Boundary Survey | Robert Gunn |
| No Laughing Matter: William Saroyan’s Californians in Crisis | Greg Levonian |
| Morta Las Vegas | Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis |
| ESSAY REVIEW | REVIEWER |
| On the Border, on the Edge: Charles Bowden’s Twinned Trilogies | David N. Cremean |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of Harriet Elinor Smith et al., eds., Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 | Chad Rohman |
| Review of Lawrence I. Berkove and Joseph Csicsila, Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain | Chad Rohman |
| Review of Gary Scharnhorst, ed., Twain in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates | Robert C. Evans |
| Review of John Morán González, The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels | David Anthony |
| Review of Todd Simmons, ed., Matter 13: Edward Abbey | David Joplin |
| Review of Audrey Goodman, Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the 20th-Century Southwest | Ann E. Lundberg |
| Review of Dan Flores, Visions of the Big Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West | Flannery Burke |
| Review of Jake Silverstein, Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction | Barbara Barney Nelson |
| Review of George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River | Jeffrey McCarthy |
| Review of David Wyatt, Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature | Lars Erik Larson |
| Review of Anne Coray, Violet Transparent | Marybeth Holleman |
| Review of James R. Dow, Roger Welsch, and Susan Dow, eds., Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech | Lisa Gabbert |
| Review of Rev. Santiago Tafolla, A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate | Leigh Johnson |
| Review of Garrick Bailey, ed., Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche and of Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz, eds., The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal | Matt Low |
| Review of Steven Trout, On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 | Sarah Stoeckl |
| Review of Aparajita Nanda, ed., Black California: A Literary Anthology | Blake Allmendinger |
Spring 2012 (vol. 47, no. 1)
| ESSAYS | |
| “Perhaps the Words Remember Me”: Richard Brautigan’s Very Short Stories | Christopher Gair |
| Translating the American West into English: The Case of Hendrik Conscience’s Het Goudland | Michael Boyden & Liselotte Vandenbussche |
| West by Southeast: Peter Matthiessen’s Florida Trilogy as Western Fiction | Carl Abbott |
| Peyote in the Kitchen: Gendered Identities and Imperial Domesticity in Edna Ferber’s Cimarron | Amanda Zink |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of Mary Clearman Blew, This Is Not the Ivy League: A Memoir | Lois M. Welch |
| Review of James C. Work, Don’t Shoot the Gentile | Levi S. Peterson |
| Review of Todd James Pierce and Jarret Keene, eds., Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas, and of Hal K. Rothman, Nevada: The Making of Modern Nevada | Gerald Haslam |
| Review of Brian Doyle, Mink River | Chad Wriglesworth |
| Review of N. Scott Momaday, In the Bear’s House | William M. Clements |
| Review of Richard Yañez, Cross Over Water | Bob J. Frye |
| Review of William Kloefkorn, Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected Poems | Michael Sowder |
| Review of Genaro M. Padilla, The Daring Flight of My Pen: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s “Historia de la Nueva Mexico,” 1610 | Ralph Bauer |
| Review of Dana Leibsohn and Barbara E. Mundy, Vistas, 1520–1820: Visual Culture in Spanish America/Cultura Visual de Hispanoamérica | Keri Holt |
| Review of Tyche Hendricks, The Wind Doesn’t Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands | Maria O’Connell |
| Review of James Skillen, The Nation’s Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West, and of Martin Nie, The Governance of Western Public Lands: Mapping Its Present and Future | Debbie Lee |
| Review of Heather Fryer, Perimeters of Democracy: Inverse Utopias and the Wartime Social Landscape in the American West | Audrey Goodman |
| Review of Jace Weaver, Notes from a Miner’s Canary: Essays on the State of Native America | Reginald Dyck |
| Review of Forrestine C. Hooker, Child of the Fighting Tenth: On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers, ed. by Steve Wilson | Mary Clearman Blew |
| Review of David Remley, Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man | Jennifer Schell |
| Review of David Theis, ed., Literary Houston | Alexander Adkins |
| Review of Rudolfo Anaya, Randy Lopez Goes Home | Cordelia E. Barrera |
| Review of Hart Stilwell, Glory of the Silver King: The Golden Age of Tarpon Fishing, ed. by Brandon D. Shuler | Maria O’Connell |
Summer 2012 (vol. 47, no. 2):
Special Issue: Television in the West
| ESSAYS | |
| Introduction: Television and the Depiction of the American West | Michael K. Johnson |
| The Dangers of Driving the Dalton: The Paradoxical Industrial and Environmental Aesthetics of Ice Road Truckers | Jennifer Schell |
| She Hits Like a Man, but She Kisses Like a Girl: TV Heroines, Femininity, Violence, and Intimacy | Kerry Fine |
| The Warp, Woof, and Weave of This Story’s Tapestry Would Foster the Illusion of Further Progress: Justified and the Evolution of Western Violence | Justin A. Joyce |
| Rejuvenating “Eternal Inequality” on the Digital Frontiers of Red Dead Redemption | Sara Humphreys |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Review of Alvin H. Marill, Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders | Cynthia J. Miller |
| Review of Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran, eds., Investigating “Firefly” and “Serenity”: Science Fiction on the Frontier | Corey Dethier |
| Review of Christine Cornea, ed., Genre and Performance: Film and Television | Sue Matheson |
| Review of Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers, Ladies of the Western: Interviews with 25 Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s | Holly Jean Richard |
| Review of Ed Andreychuk, Louis L’Amour on Film and Television | D. B. Gough |
| Review of John L. Simons and Robert Merrill, Peckinpah’s Tragic Westerns: A Critical Study | Leonard Engel |
| Review of Mary C. Beltrán, Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom and of Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media | Melinda Linscott |
| Review of Manuel Muñoz, What You See in the Dark | John Hursh |
Fall 2012 (vol. 47, no. 3)
| ESSAYS | |
| Narrative, Being, and the Dialogic Novel: The Problem of Discourse and Language in Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing | Alan Noble |
| Speaking Chinook: Adaptation, Indigeneity, and Pauline Johnson’s British Columbia Stories | Martha L. Viehmann |
| Before the West Was West: Rethinking the Temporal Borders of Western American Literature | Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Don Graham, State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents | Andrew Husband |
| Paul Lindholdt, In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau | Hal Crimmel |
| Brady Harrison, ed., All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature | Capper Nichols |
| William H. Truettner, Painting Indians and Building Empires in North America, 1710–1840 | Rebecca M. Lush |
| Scott Richard Lyons, X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent | Daniel M. Radus |
| John Lloyd Purdy, Riding Shotgun into the Promised Land | Dallin Jay Bundy |
| Panthea Reid, Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles | Susanne George Bloomfield |
| Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush, eds., Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays | Janet Dean |
| Hugh J. Reilly, Bound to Have Blood: Frontier Newspapers and the Plains Indian Wars | William V. Lombardi |
| Eamonn Wall, Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions | David Mogen |
| Lydia R. Cooper, No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy | Trenton Hickman |
| Dean Rader, Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI | Breanne Roberson |
| Drucilla Wall, The Geese at the Gates | Joshua Doležal |
| Summer Wood, Wrecker | Lawrence Coates |
Winter 2013 (vol. 47, no. 4)
| ESSAYS | |
| A Case for Enchantment: Re-reading Jean Stafford with “The Mountain Day” | Cathryn Halverson |
| Writing against Wilderness: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Elite Environmental Justice | Karen L. Kilcup |
| “What manner of heretic?”: Demons in McCarthy and the Question of Agency | J.A. Bernstein |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Christine Bold, ed., The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860–1920 | Tara Penny |
| Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, Un-speakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries | Joshua O’Brien |
| Frances W. Kaye, Goodlands: A Meditation and History on he Great Plains | Robert Thacker |
| Sara L. Spurgeon, ed., Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road | Christopher Schaberg |
| Lawrence Rodgers and Jerrold Hirsch, eds., America’s Folklorist: B. A. Botkin and American Culture | Ennifer Eastman Attebery |
| Lee Schweninger, ed., The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories | Udy Nolte Temple |
| Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher, eds., Artifacts & lluminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley | Andrew Angyal |
| Gerald W. Haslam with Janice E. Haslam, In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa | Frank Bergon |
| Stephen Tatum, In the Remington Moment | Kenneth Haltman |
| Clay S. Jenkinson, The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer n the Wilderness | Ryan Badger |
| Mark Rifkin, When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, he History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty | Gabriel S. Estrada |
| Scott Lauria Morgensen, Spaces be-tween Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization | Lisa Tatonetti |
| Michael Hames-García, Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity and of David J. Vázquez, Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity | Maria Damon |
| Kippra D. Hopper and Laurie J. Churchill, Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration | Kerry Fine |
| Steven W. Hackel, ed., Alta California: Peoples in Motion, dentities in Formation | Anne Goldman |
| Nicholas Monk, ed., Inter-textual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy | Darryl Hattenhauer |
| James Karman, ed., The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume Two, 1931–1939 | Tim Hunt |
| Donald Pizer, ed., Hamlin Garland, Prairie Radical: Writings from he 1890s | Eric Morel |
| Maylei Blackwell, ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement and of AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López, eds., Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own | Yolanda Padilla |
| Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, eds., West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 | Lois Rudnick |
| Patrick Madden, Quoti-diana: Essay | Brandon R. Schrand |
| John Joseph Mathews, ed. by Susan Kalter, Twenty Thousand Mornings: An Autobiography | James H. Cox |
| Willard Wyman, Blue Heaven | Dynette Reynold |
| Robert Alexander González, Designing Pan-America: US Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere | Amanda Ellis |
Double Issue Spring & Summer 2013 (vol. 48, nos. 1&2) (Forthcoming)
| INTRODUCTION | |
| Assessing the Postwestern | Krista Comer, guest editor |
| ESSAYS | |
| Inhabiting the Icon: Shipping Containers and the New Imagination of Western Space | Sarah Hirsch |
| Third Cinema Goes West: Common Ground for Film and Literary Theory in Postregional Discourse | Courtney Fellion |
| Narcocorridos and the Nostalgia of Violence: Postmodern Resistance en la Frontera | Chris Muniz |
| “‘Refusing to halt’: Mobility and the Quest for Spatial Justice in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange | Sarah Wald |
| Shaking Awake the Memory: The Gothic Quest for Place in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo | Paul Wickelson |
| Settler Sovereignty and the Rhizomatic West, or, The Significance of the Frontier in Postwestern Studies | Alex Trimble Young |
| “It All Comes Together” in … Reno?: Confronting the Postwestern Geographic Imaginary in Willy Vlautin’s The Motel Life | William V. Lombardi |
| The Past and the Postwestern: Garland’s Cavanagh, Closure, and Conventions of Reading | Eric Morel |
| Critical Regionalism, the US-Mexican War, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary History | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
| “Might be going to have lived”: The West in the Subjunctive Mood | Andy Meyer |
WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE