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Trained robbery

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.

Written in the land

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.

Concrete dreams

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.

The universe in verse

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

A bird in the hand

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.

Hope has a history

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.

The bitter roots of a Missoula boyhood

First published in 1941 and recently revived, Norman Macleod’s semi-autobiographical novel “The Bitter Roots” excavates Missoula’s buried past, including its young men trying to prove themselves amid war, class struggle, and cruelty.
Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray

Chris La Tray goes all in

With his memoir “Becoming Little Shell” and a life steeped in storytelling, Montana’s poet laureate challenges us to listen, commit, and create “The Good Life.”

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