Summer 2021 (WAL 56.2)
| Editors’ Letter | Amy Hamilton & Kyle Bladow |
| ESSAYS | |
| Staying with the White Trouble of Recent Feminist Westerns | Krista Comer |
| Text, Encounter, Genre: Returning (Again) to Black Elk Speaks | Sam Stoeltje |
| Simons Town as Heterotopia: The Dynamic Interplay of Barrioization and Barriology in The Brick People | Beilei Yan and Longhai Zhang |
| REVIEWS | |
| Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land | Doreen Pfost |
| Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon, eds. Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre | Travis Franks |
| Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Levi Romero, and Spencer Herrera, eds., Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland | Daniel Arbino |
| Geneva M. Gano, The Little Art Colony and US Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos | Robert Thacker |
| James H. Cox, The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History | Joshua T. Anderson |
| Brady Harrison and Randi Lynn Tanglen, eds., Teaching Western American Literature | Susan Kollin |
| Kiara Kharpertian, We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature | Daniel Clausen |
Fall 2021/Winter 2022 (WAL 56.3/4)
Special Double Issue: California, Cli-Fi, and Climate Crisis
Guest editor: Daniel D. Clausen
| Guest Editor’s Introduction: What Happens in California Cli-Fi | Daniel D. Clausen |
| ESSAYS | |
| Pre-apocalypse Now: Gold Fame Citrus as Weird Western Cli-Fi | Jennifer K. Ladino |
| Old Chestnuts: Seeding Alternative Communities and Alternative Futures in/with The Overstory | Ryan Hediger |
| Uncenter Yourselves: Revisiting Robinson Jeffers’ Inhumanism in the Age of The Overstory | Cory Willard |
| “A Land of Missing Things”: Extraction, Belonging, and Chinese Immigrant Labor in C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold | Ashley E. Reis |
| Cli-Fi Georgic and Grassroots Mutual Aid in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower | Daniel D. Clausen |
| “Trees are better than stone”: Vital Commemoration in Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels | Matt Burkhart |
| California Dreaming: Reading the Ski Film as Cli-Fi | Kevin Maier |
| REVIEWS | |
| Antonia Castañeda and Clara Lomas, Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Hispanic Literary Heritage | Erin Murrah-Mandril |
| Jim Hoy, My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie | Timothy A. Schuler |
| Arnold Krupat, Changed Forever: American Boarding-School Literature, Volume 2 | Lydia Presley |
Spring 2022 (WAL 57.1)
| ESSAYS | |
| Learning to Fly-Cast: Icarus and Myth in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It | Stephen B. Dobranski |
| “Taken from Their Self-found Paths”: Captivity and Creation in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Fiction | Quinn Grover |
| The Parthian Legacy: Irish Catholicism and Remaking Identity in Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy | Vera R. Foley |
| REVIEWS | |
| John N. Maclean, Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Xabier Irujo and Iñaki Arrieta Baro, eds. Visions of a Basque American Westerner: International Perspectives on the Writings of Frank Bergon | Michael Kowalewski |
| Ryanne Pilgeram, Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West | Jennifer K. Ladino |
| Erin Flanagan, Deer Season | Joshua Doležal |
| Mary Stoecklein, Native America Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations | Jessica Rios |
| Gary Eller, True North | Hank Nuwer |
Summer 2022 (WAL 57.2)
Special Issue: Emerging Writers
Guest Edited by Surabhi Balachander and Jillian Moore
| Guest Editors’ Introduction: Personal and Pedagogical Perspectives | Surabhi Balachander & Jillian Moore |
| ESSAYS | |
| Talking Tacos: Borderlands Culinary Rhetoric in A Taco Testimony | Alyssa Revels |
| “Don’t leave out the cowboys!”: Black Urban Cowboydom and didactic Afrofuturist Countermemories in Ghetto Cowboy (2011) and Concrete Cowboy (2021) | Tracey Salisbury and Stefan Rabitsch |
| Reimagining the West in/and the First-Year Writing Course | Sarah Jane Kerwin |
| “Asian American and Pacific Islander” Studies in Boston and Hilo: Student Activism, Radical Imaginings, and Critical Ethnic Studies | Leanne Day |
| Perfectly Designed for Connections: Zine Making in Denver Shelters | Alison Turner |
| A Report on the Living West as Feminists Project | Zainab Abdali |
| Peregrination 2036 | Mika Kennedy |
| Afterword: Precarity, Pedagogy, and the Public | Krista Comer |
| REVIEWS | |
| Rafael Acosta Morales, Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier | Cordelia E. Barrera |
| Curtis Bradley Vickers, This Here Is Devil’s Work: A Novel | Jeffrey Chisum |
| Mary Emerick, The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast | Sjana Schanning |
| David Horgan. Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West | David Rio |
| Maximilian Werner, Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death & Coexistence in the American West | Dan Aadland |
| Astrid Haas, Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861 | Jennifer Dawes |
| Patrick J. Mahoney, Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail | Jill Brady Hampton |
| Arnold Krupat, Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak | Susan D. Rose |
| Jane Hafen, Help Indians Help Themselves: The Later Writing of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) | Julianne Newmark |
Fall 2022 (WAL 57.3)
| ESSAYS | |
| Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush | Caroline Gelmi |
| Necro-Settler Coloniality in Texan Mythology and Identity: Forgetting the Alamo | Chaney Hill |
| “Theirs is a kind of ecological esthetics”: Three Mountain Poems by Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen | Todd Giles |
| REVIEWS | |
| Lisa Tatonetti, Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities | Tereza M. Szeghi |
| Estella Gonzalez, Chola Salvation | Juan-Danniel Hernandez |
| Bintrim, Timothy W., James A. Jaap, and Kimberly Vanderlaan, eds., Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh: Cather Studies | Elizabeth Turner |
| Mary Clearman Blew, Waltzing Montana: A Novel | Randi Lynn Tanglen |
| Sullivan, Shannon, Ed. Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives | Cristina Hernández Oliver |
| John G. Neihardt, Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World | Sam Stoeltje |
| Steven Wingate, The Leave-Takers | Rebecca Paredes |
| Miriam C. Brown Spiers, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction | Sara L. Spurgeon |
| Oscar Mancinas, To Live and Die in El Valle | Sophia Martinez-Abbud |
| Mark Rifkin, Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form | Caitlin Simmons |
Winter 2023 (WAL 57.4)
| ESSAYS | |
| Mapping Intergenerational Diné Beauty: Reading Hózhǫ́ in the Poetry of Tacey M. Atsitty | Michael P. Taylor and Elena Arana |
| “Do the Right Thing Always”: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Global Pandemics of 1918 and 2020 | Amy Fatzinger |
| Dao Strom’s Grass Roof, Tin Roof as Settler Refugee Critique | Michele Janette |
| REVIEWS | |
| Molly P. Rozum, Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies | Tracy Sanford Tucker |
| Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester, eds., Viva Texas Rivers! Adventure, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways | Chaney Hill |
| Jada Ach, Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West | Jenna Gersie |
| Mary Pat Brady, Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child | Sarah J. Ropp |
| Blake Allmendinger, Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West | Christine Bold |
| Lawrence W. Gross, Native American Rhetorics | Danielle Donelson |
| José F. Aranda Jr., The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 | Sandra Dahlberg |
| Lee Bergthold, The Deadliest Shortcut | Thomas J. Lyon |
| Melissa J. Homestead, The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis | Jada Ach |
| Ladette Randolph, Private Way: A Novel | Manish Pandey |
Spring 2023 (WAL 58.1)
| ESSAYS | |
| Lost in the New West: Performing Western Identity in Thomas McGuane’s Deadrock Novels | Mark Asquith |
| Shackle-Breakers and Adventure-Makers: Fantasies of the U.S. West at Oregon Health & Science University | Pamela Pierce |
| Daring to Dream: Contextualizing B. M. Bower’s The Eagle’s Wing with Colorado River Compact History | Patricia J. Rettig |
| REVIEWS | |
| Kathryn Cornell Dolan, Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination | Tom Hertweck |
| John Joseph Mathews, Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century, ed. by Michael Snyder | Sheldon Yeakley |
| Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land | O. Alan Weltzien |
| Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez, El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa | Juan M. Gallegos |
| Tracy Daugherty, 148 Charles Street: A Novel | Max Frazier |
| Gregory Smoak, Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West | Emily Gowen |
| Michael P. Branch, On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer | Hal Crimmel |
| Mary Dartt, On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection | Erica Hannickel |
| Barbara Schmitz, Sundown at Faith Regional | Mark Sanders |
| Cordelia E. Barrera, The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature | Bailey Moorhead |
Summer 2023 (WAL 58.2)
| ESSAYS | |
| Topographies of Western Violence in claire Vaye Watkins’s Battleborn | Sofía Martinicorena |
| Critical Regionality and (Mis-)Translation: The Modernist Elision of Pueblo Source Material in Mary Austin’s Later Career | D. Seth Horton |
| A Fable of the Anthropocene: The Disturbing Naturalist Humanity in Frank Norris’s The Octopus | Daichi Sugai |
| REVIEWS | |
| Mark Asquith, Lost in the New West: Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx, and McGuane | Scott Pearce |
| Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson, eds., Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts | Alison Turner |
| John Mort, Oklahoma Odyssey: A Novel | Steve Yates |
| Stephen J. Mexal, The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West | Matthew Evertson |
| John Joseph Matthews, The Short Stories of John Joseph Matthews, an Osage Writer, ed. and with an introduction by Susan Kalter | Alexander Steele |
| Thomas Becknell, Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place | Susan Naramore Maher |
| Roy Scheele, Produce Wagon: New and Selected Poems | Mark Sanders |
| Ann Putnam, Cuban Quartermoon | Sarah Driscoll |
| Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol, eds., The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre | Daniel Pinti |
| Paul A. Formisano, Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River | Ned Schaumberg |
| Lynn Downey, American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West | Stephen P. Cook |
Fall 2023 (WAL 58.3)
| ESSAYS | |
| The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Tracing Mexican American Environmental Concerns in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don | Anthony Gomez III |
| A Turn in the Fog: Gertrude Atherton Reads Henry James | Lisa Orr |
| Tall Tale and Anti-Capitalist (Post)Western Storytelling in Douglas Coupland’s Generation X | Junwu Tian and Yingjie Duan |
| REVIEWS | |
| Joel Deshaye, The American Western in Canadian Literature | John Donahue |
| Suzanne Roberts, Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties | Jennifer Sinor |
| Margaret D. Jacobs, After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands | Meredith Eliassen |
| Kai Bosworth, Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century | Sebastian Braun |
| E Cram, Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West | Christine Self |
| Michael K. Johnson, A Black Woman’s West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon | Jennifer S. Tuttle |
| Lawrence P. Jackson, Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West | Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. |
| David McKay Powell, Cather and Opera | Maria Mackas |
| Neil Campbell, Worlding the Western: Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community | Christopher Conway |
| Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad, Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography | Carolina Arellanos |
| Robinson Jeffers, The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts, edited by Tim Hunt and Robert Kafka | Cory Willard |
| Megan Riley McGilchrist, Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote | Christie Smith |
| Robert Wrigley, The True Account of Myself as a Bird | Ronald McFarland |
Winter 2024 (WAL 58.4)
| ESSAYS | |
| “Pink Eye Was All the Rage”: Colonial Identity Sickness in Stephen Graham Jones’ The Bird is Gone: A Monograph Manifesto | Sara Spurgeon |
| Performing Gender in the Bleeding Kansas Novels of Jane Smiley and James McBride | Elizabeth Abele |
| Young, Tough, Beautiful, and a Little Bit Crazy: The Forestry of Norman Maclean’s Prose in USFS 1919: The Ranger, The Cook, and a Hole in the Sky | Thomas Kaye |
| REVIEWS | |
| Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield, eds., Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry | Nathan Anderson |
| Lauren Delaunay Miller, ed., Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing | Peter L. Bayers |
| Brenden W. Rensink, ed., The North American West in the Twenty-First Century | Michael Brickey |
| Jada Ach and Gary Reger, eds., Reading Aridity in Western American Literature | Rachel L. Carazo |
| Ryan Hediger, ed., Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene | Jennifer Forsberg |
| McKenzie Long, This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments | Talley V. Kayser |
| Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith, eds., Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb | Caroline Straty Kraft |
| Robert DeMott, Steinbeck’s Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters | Jessica Colleen Pérez López |
| Kate Rigby, Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times | Andy Meyer |
| Tim Hunt, Voice to Voice in the Dark | Jeanetta Mish |
| Andrew Gulliford, Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance | Eytan Pol |
| John T. Price, All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations | David R. Solheim |
| Tom Lynch, Outback & Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary | Alex Trimble Young |
Spring 2024 (WAL 59.1)
| ESSAYS | |
| “A Convenient Hallway for Men to Pass Through”: Chicana Adolescence and the San Diego City Space in Patricia Santana’s Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility | Cristina Herrera |
| Post Nature Ecology in Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Nightland | Todd Francis Tietchen |
| The Garden Palimpsest: Space, Time, and the Anthropocene in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes | Dylan Couch |
| REVIEWS | |
| Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film, ed. by Hervé Mayer and David Roche | Daniel R. Adler |
| Western Journeys, by Teow Lim Goh | Florence D. Amamoto |
| Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and Just Transition, by Matthew S. Henry | Surabhi Balachander |
| The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, by Matthew D. Stewart | James Barilla |
| Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre, by Michael K. Johnson (2024 WLA Thomas J. Lyon Book Award) | Neil Campbell |
| Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos, by Myrriah Gómez | Carolyn Dekker |
| California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal, by Monique McDade | Margaret Doane |
| American Energy Cinema, ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre | Micah Donohue |
| The Films of Wallace Fox, ed. by Gary D. Rhodes and Joanna Hearne | Courtney Fellion |
| We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura | Mika Kennedy |
| Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West, by Bryce Andrews | Jennifer Schell |
| Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West, ed. by John Wills and Esther Wright | Chad Beharriell |
Summer 2024 (WAL 59.2)
| ESSAYS | |
| Rural Asian American Wests: Racial Distance, Cross-Racial Encounter, and Settler Solidarity in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto, Jung Yun, and Linda Sue Park | Surabhi Balachander |
| Indigenous Homelands and Global Refugees: Unpacking Joy Harjo’s Solidary Poetics in An American Sunrise | Anna M. Brígido-Corachán |
| Knowing Animals, Knowing Land: Interspecies Affectivity and Environment in The Call of the Wild | Sarah Tanner |
| REVIEWS | |
| Hammer of the Dogs, by Jarret Keene | Carlos Tkacz |
| Outlawed, by Anna North | Sarah Nolan-Brueck |
| The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, by Peter Josyph | Patrick Vincent |
| Frontier Fake News: Nevada’s Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters, by Richard Moreno | Jerome Tharaud |
| Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western, by Mia Mask | Abby M. Gibson |
| A Little Bit of Land, by Jessica Gigot Tagen Towsley Baker The Starlight Hotel Casino, by William A. Douglass | Richard W. Etulain |
| Boyhood among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch, by Richard W. Etulain | Frank Bergon |
| Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives, by Kristy L. Ulibarri | David Lerner |
| Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy’s Expanding Worlds, by Bryan Giemza | William Brannon |
| Fight or Flight: Poems, by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum | Michael J. Beilfuss |
| More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas, ed. by Lacy M. Johnson and Cheryl Beckett | Kelly McKisson |
| Don’t Fear the Reaper, by Stephen Graham Jones | Mikael Gonzales |
Fall 2024 (WAL 59.3)
| ESSAYS | |
| “That Way Lies Madness”: Authenticity and the Limits of Insanity in Little Big Man | Monica David and Lloyd Alimboyao Sy |
| “All That Her Name Recalls”: Sexual Violence, the Archive, and the Art of Indirection in My Ántonia | Betty Jay |
| Biblical Allusions in On the Banks of Plum Creek: The Artistry of Wilder’s Characterizations of Pa and Ma | Ethan Smilie |
| REVIEW ESSAY | |
| New Poetry Collections Grapple with Western Timescapes | Kasey Peters |
| REVIEWS | |
| Think of Horses, by Mary Clearman Blew | Linda Sumption |
| In a Land of Awe: Finding Reverence in the Search for Wild Horses, by Chad Hanson | Susan Nance |
| Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir, by Thomas C. Gannon | Rebecca McIntosh |
| Thelma and Louise, by Susan Kollin | Darcie Rives-East |
| California, A Slave State, by Jean Pfaelzer | Terri A. Castaneda |
| The Racial Railroad, by Julia H. Lee | Bowen Du |
| Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West’s Public Lands, by John L. Smith | Iker Saitua |
| From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California, by Jonathan H. Ebel | Sharon Reynolds |
| Twenty Miles of Fence: Blueprint of a Cowboy, by Bob West | Ian Jones |
Winter 2025 (WAL 59.4)
| Essays | |
| Genre Hybridity in Jean Luc Herbulot’s Saloum (2021) | Michael K Johnson |
| Reading the Texas Bioregion: The Ecological Housewife in The Tree of Life | Annie Culver |
| The Hermann Hesse of the American West: Der Steppenwolf as a Companion Piece to Desert Solitaire | Eytan Pol |
| Book Reviews | |
| Lauren E. Perry-Rummel, Animal Texts: Critical Animal Concepts for American Environmental Literature | Dominic Dongilli |
| Dana Fritz, Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape | Sarah Jane Kerwin |
| Gretchen Ernster Henderson, Life in the Tar Seeps: A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea | Paul Schmitt |
| Victoria Lamont, The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. Bower | Laura Godfrey |
| Rebecca Clarren, The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance | Lori Harrison-Kahan |
| Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo | Brett Barney |
| Michael Docherty, The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles | Sofía Martinicorena |
| Sarah Hernandez, We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition | Julianne Newmark |
| Yolonda Youngs, Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon | Isaac R. Covarrubias |
| Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History | Christina Roberts |
| Margaret Ziolkowski, Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth Century Dam Building | Lubna Alzaroo |
| Kelly Weber, You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis | Stacey Waite |
Spring 2025 (WAL 60.1)
| Essays | |
| Escape from Taos Reality: Mass Tourism, Paradise, and Enclosure in Mabel Dodge Luhan’s Winter in Taos | Matt Johnson |
| The Beach Boys Postwestern Dirge: The Haunting Terminus of the Beach Boys’ Aquatic-Asphalt New Western Frontiers | Robert Bennett |
| Book Reviews | |
| Richard Slotkin, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America | Rob E. King |
| Stephen Tatum. Unhomely Wests: Essays from A to Z | Zak Breckenridge |
| JJJJJerome Ellis, Aster of Ceremonies: Poems | Amelia Cruz |
| Tatiana Reinoza, Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory | Sonia Del Hierro |
| Gary Reger, Wild, Weird, West: Essays on Arid America | Christopher Boggs |
| Terry Hamburg, Land of the Dead: How the West Changed Death in America | Jennifer McMahon |
| Meredith McCoy, On Our Own Terms: Indigenous Histories of School Funding and Policy | Lydia Presley |
| Sage Marshall, Echolocation | Spencer Robert Young |
| Jeffrey D. Nichols, ed., The Arches Reader | Matthew Heimburger |
| Laura Paskus, ed., Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth | Shelli Rottschafer |
| Cristina Herrera, Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros’s Writings | Dominique Vargas |
| Mark Fiege, Michael J. Lansing, and Leisl Carr Childers, eds., Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West | Michael Kowalewski |
| Carol Bradley, Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse | Carmen Ollila |
| Cari M. Carpenter and Karen L. Kilcup, eds., The Selected Works of Ora Eddleman Reed: Author, Editor, and Activist for Cherokee Rights | Jillian Moore |
| Debra Magpie Earling, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel | Theresa Strouth Gaul |
| Jennifer Case, We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood | Katherine J. Lehman |
| Erin Sharkey, ed., A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars | Arielle Raymos |
Summer 2025 (WAL 60.2)
Special Issue, Resettling Willa Cather’s West
Guest edited by Emily J. Rau
| Essays | |
| Guest Editor’s Introduction: Willa Cather’s Uneven Ground | Emily J. Rau |
| “The waste and wear we are powerless to combat”: Willa Cather and the Settler-Colonial Politics of Place-Making | Rachel Collins |
| Bad Roads and Burial Grounds: Feral Transport Media and Narrative Erasure in Willa Cather’s Migrant Tales | Paul Burch |
| Willa Cather, Academic Populism, and the Land-Grab University | Jerome Tharaud |
| “‘It Ain’t My Prairie’”: Willa Cather and Settler Colonialism | William R. Handley |
| Temporary Presences on the Mesa: “Tom Outland’s Story” and Mesa Verde National Park | Sarah Jane Kerwin |
| Quilting the West: Willa Cather and the Madonna of the Train | Ariel Clark Silver |
| Review Essay | |
| Of Cather Biographies | Robert Thacker |
| Book Reviews | |
| Rose Miron, Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory | Karen M. Poremski |
| Susan Bernardin, The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West | Melody Graulich |
| Krista Comer, Living West as Feminists: Conversations about the Where of Us | Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais |
| Tatiana Konrad, Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present | Hal Crimmel |
| Robert Aquinas McNally, Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness | Patricia Jewell |