Artistic director Michael Sakir on turning Norman Maclean’s ‘A River Runs Through It’ into an opera, from fly-fishing as stagecraft to giving Maclean’s female characters real names.
Ahead of the James Welch Native Lit Festival in Missoula, a conversation with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain on Welch’s poetry, the writers he inspired, and the lineage the festival protects.
Ahead of her talk in Missoula, author and agroecologist Liz Carlisle discusses perennial foods, Native foodways, and what plants can teach us about getting through hard times.
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.
With his new book “Grit to Grind,” Missoula skater-turned-photographer Andy Kemmis tells the story of how a few kids with decks and nowhere to ride built a statewide skatepark movement.
Sheryl Noethe’s new poetry collection, “The Science of Coincidence,” moves from the Big Bang to personal memory, while exploring dark times and the power of imagination
Author Brian Buckbee’s bond with a wounded pigeon allows “We Should All Be Birds” to take flight, but the deeper story is one of survival through illness and heartbreak.
In her new book “The Intermediaries,” author Brandy Schillace traces the history of a radical queer clinic in Berlin and shows how love and community have always been forms of resistance.
