In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the

In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the

In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the

In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the

In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the

Podcast Episode · New Books Network · April 3 · 46m

The world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.

“For a long time, a big proportion of the American public said that border security was their most important issue. People are starting to realize what that means in terms of the violence entailed.”

Durante una década, la organización Colibrí Center for Human Rights ofreció un vínculo vital entre familias de migrantes desaparecidos y sus seres queridos extraviados. Ahora, ¿dónde está?

The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. But now it's gone dark.

Caroline Tracey’s “Salt Lakes” is less the jeremiad of an outraged conservationist than a tender bildungsroman.

Caroline Tracey’s debut essay collection documents the decline of salt lakes, and what their strange ecosystems can teach us about confronting the losses of climate change.

In 1983, Telluride Film Festival co-founder Tom Luddy took Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky on a road trip. Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia was going to screen at the event. They drove from Lud…

Tucson writer Caroline Tracey explored the unusual world of salt lakes and wrote about them in a new book.

Caroline Eaton Tracey is a writer and geographer whose work focuses on the US Southwest, Mexico, and their borderlands. Her first book, a hybrid memoir titled Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, will be...

New books by Ibram X. Kendi, Benjamin Stevenson, Elle Kennedy, Elizabth Berg, Demi Lovato, and more.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Battles to Preserve Mono Lake Set New Protection Precedents

Caroline Tracey’s debut essay collection documents the decline of salt lakes, and what their strange ecosystems can teach us about confronting the losses of climate change.

Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, Arizona—a town best known for Old West-themed gunfight tourism. In his new book, Reckon, Phillips explores his relationship to the unusual setting of his childhoo...

The Imperial Valley might be the best place in the world to grow beets. What went wrong with the California industry?

Recent essays in Places by journalist Caroline Tracey, human rights lawyer Julian Aguon, and contributing writers Shannon Mattern and Belmont Freeman.

In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement.

In collaboration with the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning, the On the Brinck | Places Prize supports ambitious public scholarship focused on the American Southwest, in the s...

Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 13-Dec 11, 2025. An acclaimed young nature writer’s intimate exploration into the h...

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According to residents, officials have not produced an environmental impact statement, structural plans, or a cost-benefit analysis, nor have they consulted affected communities, as required by law.

According to residents, officials have not produced an environmental impact statement, structural plans, or a cost-benefit analysis, nor have they consulted affected communities, as required by law.

Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker, an intimate look at a processing plant in Arkansas, exposes the inhumanity of a workplace and how workers fought back.

Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker, an intimate look at a processing plant in Arkansas, exposes the inhumanity of a workplace and how workers fought back.

Caroline Tracey probes the experimental book-art of Mexican author Verónica Gerber Bicecci.

Caroline Tracey probes the experimental book-art of Mexican author Verónica Gerber Bicecci.