At the Mall
Issue 30 > Nonfiction Fall 2012 John R. Campbell On Thursday morning I arrive where the well-groomed sales staff hover, where senior citizens speed-walk, where young mothers push strollers with a...
View ArticleTime and Chance on a High Desert River
Issue 30 > Nonfiction Fall 2012 Hal Crimmel If you want to raft a remote Class V desert river, one with risky, demanding rapids, you want some assurance that the river you have chosen is familiar...
View ArticleCloud County Revival
Issue 30 > Nonfiction Fall 2012 Wind Power’s Ascent in Rural Kansas Philip Warburg Excerpt from Harvest the Wind: America’s Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability by Philip...
View ArticleNo Longer the Miner’s Canary
Issue 30 > Nonfiction Fall 2012 Indigenous Nations’ Responses to Climate Change Zoltán Grossman Excerpt from Asserting Native Reslience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crises,...
View ArticleThe Lazar House of Nancy
Issue 30 > Nonfiction Fall 2012 Cal Freeman I am driving through Rouge Park in an ice storm today. The voice on the radio says the glazing of ice on the trees could cause those limbs to break and...
View ArticleStretching Attention: Long-Term Science and Creative Writing
Issue 31 > Nonfiction Winter 2013 Mount St. Helens Charles Goodrich Have you heard this story? The scientists and government agency reps, along with the linguists and graphic designers they had...
View ArticleDrawing from the Blast Zone
Issue 31 > Nonfiction Winter 2013 Mount St. Helens Jolie Kaytes In the blast zone of Mount St. Helens, I have been drawing. With my eyes and with my pen I follow jagged ridge lines, the Us of...
View ArticleI Have Lived My Whole Life on this Boat (Kerala Backwaters)
Issue 31 > Nonfiction Winter 2013 3rd Annual Contest Finalist Marco Wilkinson This boat shimmers with the haphazard traverses of ants, always seeming to scramble. They are tiny, even for ants, but...
View ArticleTortoise
Issue 31 > Nonfiction Winter 2013 3rd Annual Contest Finalist Jacqueline Kolosov Even a day-old turtle knows its way in the world. – Proverb...
View ArticleAwake in L.A.
Issue 31 > Nonfiction Winter 2013 3rd Annual Contest Finalist Josh Shear That moment when you’re screaming downhill into the valley, two hours out of Las Vegas into the setting sun with some...
View ArticleThe Hawk Lady
Issue 31 > Nonfiction Winter 2013 3rd Annual Contest Finalist Langdon Cook My boy talks to the hawks. Like me at his age, and even now, he is outraged at their indifference. A familiar red-tail in a...
View ArticleLove and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook
Issue 31 > Nonfiction Winter 2013 3rd Annual Contest Winner Sonya Huber 1. Fall in love with a blue-faced sign for Interstate 35-W in Minneapolis; ache and hold back tears because Minnesota winters...
View ArticleShe Poured Out Her Own
Issue 32 > Nonfiction Spring 2013 Julene Bair This essay was first published in 2007 in the anthology Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works. It is reprinted by permission of the author. The...
View ArticleBromancing the Gar
Issue 32 > Nonfiction Spring 2013 In Pursuit of Trinity River Seven-Footers Mark Spitzer When I lit off for Texas in October, I had no idea what the story was supposed to be. To get the research...
View ArticleHook and Sway
Issue 32 > Nonfiction Spring 2013 Essay and Photographs by Tamie Marie Fields The waves come in waves. They come in translucent-green, fanned-out rays. They pour in rhythmic heaves toward the beach...
View ArticleOrder and Entropy
Issue 32 > Nonfiction Spring 2013 Earth, Rock, and Craft on the Grand Canyon Trail Crew Nathaniel Brodie LTB was grunting. He always grunted as he moved stone, just as he muttered as he shaped it,...
View ArticleUnder Tropical Light: The Parking Garages of Miami Beach
Issue 33 > Nonfiction Summer 2013 Prose by Claudia Kousoulas Photography by George Kousoulas Any skyscraper bulges in the looseness of morning but in twilight becomes unutterably crisp – E. E....
View ArticleGoogle-Mapping a Syrian Childhood
Issue 33 > Nonfiction Summer 2013 Beth Baker I load the map of Aleppo and it materializes on my screen, pixellated at first, then resolving into a sprawling city webbed with streets. I zoom in and...
View ArticleThe Marsh
Issue 33 > Nonfiction Summer 2013 Prose by Rick Bass Paintings by Elizabeth Hughes Bass Excerpt from The Better Bombshell: Writers and Artists Redefine the Female Role Model, edited by Charlotte...
View ArticleGetting to Grey Owl’s Cabin
Issue 33 > Nonfiction Summer 2013 Kurt Caswell On the Kingsmere Road west along the narrow arm of Waskesiu, I drive with the window down. Nine cow elk with calves graze the summer roadside grass,...
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