The cultural and intellectual history of the Silver State is examined through the creation of its libraries.... more

Martin, the central character of Hart Wegner's powerful new short-story cycle, is a middle-aged German émigré who has found a home, of sorts, in the glitzy, often surreal setting of contemporary Las Vegas.... more

America’s current "war on drugs" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West.... more

Oildale native, Gerald Haslam, doesn’t like it when folks dismiss the Central Valley as boring and flat.... more