VOL. 41, NO. 1 

(Fall 2024)

CONTENTS

Conversation
Heidi Thornock with Gabby Rivera; Lamis Shaikh, Jordan Mackey, and Courtney Craggett with Iliana Rocha; Jude Agboada with MyLoan Dinh; Sarah Grunnah with K.P. Powell; Sara Dant with Megan Kate Nelson; Stacy Bernal and Tim Crompton with Tim Howard; Susan McKay with Tacey M. Atsitty; Mikel Vause with Anthony Horowitz

Art by Chin Chih Yang

Essay

Daniel R. Schwarz, Neil Mathison, Jaspal Kaur Singh

Fiction
Henry Hughes

Poetry
Tacey M. Atsitty, Debasish Lahiri, Alixa Brobbey, Benjamin Bartu, Matt Zambito, Matthew Friday, Debasish Mishra, Justin Evans, Sandra Marchetti

BROWSE THE ISSUE

“It was important for me to remind readers that all national parks are Indigenous land, and that Indigenous peoples continue to live near (and in some cases, within) their boundaries. Tribal nations have always conceived of parks like Yellowstone as part of their historic and present homelands. Knowing and acknowledging this adds more historical complexity to our understanding of park history—Yellowstone’s as well as others. And it forces us to acknowledge that some achievements that Americans often take for granted have a much more complicated, and often a darker, history than we have been willing to admit.”

—Megan Kate Nelson, Weber—The Contemporary West, 2024

COMMENTARY:

Reading The West Fall 2024

"Birds rely on the lake, a critical link
in the Pacific Flyway between North
and South America. Every year, ten to
twelve million birds from 338 species
come to rest, eat, and breed during
migrations of a thousand miles or more.
With the decline of other lakes, the Great
Salt Lake is increasingly important to
these species. . ."

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