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Feeding the Monsternew

From the forthcoming book: Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security by Todd Miller.
Tucson Weekly |
Todd Miller |
03-18-2014 |
Excerpts
Tags: Border Patrol Nation, Todd Miller
Death on Two Railsnew

Salvadoran journalist rides the deadly migrant trail.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
01-16-2014 |
Books
Tags: Oscar Martinez, The Beast
Drugs 'R' Usnew

Narcoland exposes corruption that fueled the rise of Mexican cartels.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
12-05-2013 |
Books
A Dry Heatnew
Gary Nabhan's new book looks at what we're going to eat as our planet's temperature rises
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
09-12-2013 |
Books
An Excerpt From Simple Dreamsnew

From her new memoir, Linda Ronstadt's look at her musical life in Tucson and what took her to L.A.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ronstadt |
09-12-2013 |
Books
An Excerpt From "Son of a Gun"new

Soon after we learned that our mother was dead, my brother and I went to a bar. We'd already worked the phones. Josh had called our grandparents, who'd been divorced for forty years but both still lived in Philadelphia...
Tucson Weekly |
Justin St. Germain |
09-03-2013 |
Excerpts
Ballad of a Broken Worldnew

Justin St. Germain's memoir, Son of a Gun, is a striking debut by a former Tucsonan.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
08-19-2013 |
Books
Tags: Justin St. Germain
Water Worriesnew

Through interviews and essays, a father/daughter team looks at the nature of Arizona's heat island existence.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Hull |
04-11-2013 |
Books
Tear Down This Wallnew

The disruption and destruction created by the border wall is shown in photos and words.
Tucson Weekly |
Jon M. Shumaker |
04-07-2013 |
Books
Tags: Krista Schlyer
Cross Purposesnew

Nancy Wood's 'The Soledad Crucifixion' gets hung up on poetic momentum
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
01-10-2013 |
Books
Stories in Sepia Tonesnew

Ten years of research powers a compelling biography of a Western pioneer.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
12-13-2012 |
Nonfiction
Paucity of Plotnew

Despite strong characters, the journey in 'Hard to Have Heroes' is woefully discombobulated.
Tucson Weekly |
Bobby Carlson |
12-05-2012 |
Fiction
Drugs and Prophecynew

Tucsonan Darrell James brings back Del Shannon for a Sonoran adventure.
Tucson Weekly |
Christine Wald-Hopkins |
10-17-2012 |
Fiction
The Idea of the Savagenew

A UA law professor looks at almost 3,000 years of Western ethnocentrism
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
10-04-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Robert A. Williams Jr.
Cats and the Cooknew

Julia Child's love of felines is detailed in this book, co-written by Tucsonan Patricia Barey.
Tucson Weekly |
Paul Wine |
09-20-2012 |
Nonfiction