AI giant Anthropic may owe dozens of Montana authors money after training its Claude chatbot on pirated books. But writers say a copyright settlement doesn’t address a deeper anxiety — losing the humanity in humanities.
Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World’ grew from her work on the Clark Fork Superfund case. But the book itself reaches back to the first encounter between the Salish and Jesuit missionaries, where radically different ways of understanding land collided — with consequences that continue to unfold.
Montana knows Tom Catmull’s Last Resort from years of brewery gigs, but the trio’s debut offers something new: 12 catchy roots pop originals with stories that sneak up on you.
