Articles, Stories and Essays in Periodicals
Articles noted with + were later published in essay collections, often in substantially revised form..
“How To Survive This,” The New York Times Magazine, March 26, 2020. Poem from How To Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons), September 2020.
“Great Barrier,” Time Magazine Special Report 2020. Poem from How To Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons), 2020.
Introduction, A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, Oxford University Press (New York) special commemorative edition, 2020.
“The Heroes of This Novel Are Centuries Old and 300 Feet Tall.” The New York Times Book Review of Richard Powers’s The Overstory, April 9, 2018.
“#MeToo isn’t enough. Now women need to get ugly.” The Guardian. January 16, 2018.
“A View from the South: Let the Confederate Flag Go.” The Guardian, July 3, 2015.
“The Weight of a Falling Sky.” Ms. Magazine, February 26, 2015.
“An Inner Life.” The New York Times Book Review of Kimberly Elkins’s What is Visible, June 5, 2014.
“The Botany of Desire.” The New York Times Book Review of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Signature of All Things, September 26, 2013.
“The Other Sister.” The New York Times Book Review of Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, June 6, 2013.
“A New Kind of Day” (Excerpt from Flight Behavior.) Orion Magazine, September / October, 2012.
“Another American Way.” The Occupied Wall Street Journal, Nov. 18, 2011.
“Once On This Island.” The New York Times Book Review of T.C. Boyle’s When the Killing’s Done, Feb. 18, 2011.
“Reconstructing Our Desires.” The Progressive, December 2010 / January 2011.
“Ear to the Ground.” New York Time Book Review of E.O. Wilson’s Anthill, April 9, 2010.
“Water is Life.” National Geographic, April, 2010.
“The Color Red.” AARP Magazine, May and June, 2009.
“Knowing Our Place.” Read magazine, May 1, 2009.
“Reading list for the new president.” New York Times, 2009
“What Money Doesn’t Buy.” World Ark Magazine, March / April 2009
“How to be Hopeful.” Resurgence Magazine, January / February, 2009.
New Year’s resolution, Resurgence Magazine, January / February, 2009.
“Reclaiming the Kitchen” (excerpt from AVM). Mother Earth News, June / July, 2008.
“How to Be Hopeful.” The Land Report, Summer, 2008.
“Waiting for Asparagus” excerpt from AVM. geez magazine Winter, 2007.
“City Slickers and Clod Hoppers” (excerpt from AVM). geez magazine Winter, 2007.
“Our Dirty Work.” Washington Post, Sept. 30, 2007.
“No Bananas, but Lots of Tomatoes” (excerpt from AVM). The Guardian, June 27, 2007.
“Growing Trust”(excerpt from AVM). Mother Earth News, June / July, 2007.
“Stalking the Vegetannual”(excerpt from AVM). Orion, March / April, 2007.
“DIY Cheese” (excerpt from AVM). Food and Wine, May 2006.
“Following the Ancient Paths” in World Ark Magazine, September / October, 2005.
“Not Just to Get, But to Give” in World Ark Magazine, July / August 2005.
“Turkey Tomfoolery” in Farming Magazine, 2004.
“Small Wonder” from Small Wonder. Peace & Freedom, Vol. 64 No. 1, Winter 2004.
“Vaya con Dios, Tucson.” Arizona Daily Star, May 9, 2004.
“A Good Farmer” from The Essential Agrarian Reader. Mountain Record, Dharma Communications Periodicals, Fall 2003.
“Bourbon for Dinner.” Food & Wine Magazine, Nov. 2003.
“A Good Farmer.” The Nation, Nov. 3, 2003.
“The Way to Nueva Vida,” excerpt from “A Forest’s Last Stand” in Small Wonder. Sierra Magazine. Sept-Oct; 2003.
Excerpt from “No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak.” Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, Fall 2002/Winter 2003: No. 20.
“Saying Grace” in Timeline No. 68, Foundation for Global Community, March/April 2003.
“A Fist In The Eye of God,” Mother Earth News, August/September 2002.
“Small Wonder,” Orion Magazine, Summer 2002.
“A Fist In the Eye of God,” Plough Reader, Summer 2002.
“It’s My Flag Too,” excerpt, Reader’s Digest, July 2002.
“Saying Grace” in World Ark Magazine, Heifer International, Fall 2002.
“It’s My Flag, Too.” Publishers Weekly, Feb. 4, 2002.
“It’s My Flag, Too.” San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 13, 2002.
“Everybody’s Flag.” Tucson Weekly, Jan. 10, 2002.
“Saying Grace,” Audubon, January 2002.
“The Mean Eye” from Pigs in Heaven. Tucson Guide Quarterly, Madden Publishing, Winter 2002.
“Reflections on Wartime.” Washington Post, Nov. 23, 2001.
“Local Foods that Please the Soul.” New York Times, Nov. 22, 2001.
“Knowing Our Place,” Mother Earth News, October/November 2001.
“Notebook.” New Republic, Vol. 225 n° 17, Oct. 10, 2001.
“No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak.” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 14, 2001.
“Una pura y elevada nota de angustia,” La Jornada, 5 October 2001.
“What Has Changed for All of Us.” Boston Globe, Sep. 26, 2001.
“And Our Flag Was Still There.” San Francisco Chronicle, Sep. 25, 2001.
“A Pure, High Note of Anguish.” Los Angeles Times, Sep. 23, 2001.
“Old Chestnuts” from Prodigal Summer. Tucson Quarterly, Madden Publishing, Summer 2001.
“Rethinking Patriotism: `Only we have the power to demolish our own ideals.’” Arizona Daily Star, September 30, 2001.
“Old Chestnuts” from Prodigal Summer. Book magazine, West Egg Communications, Sept. / Oct. 2000.
“Somebody’s Baby.” The Plough Reader, Autumn 2000.
“Lacewings.” Redbook, Nov. 2000.
“Seeing Scarlet” with Steven L. Hopp. Audubon Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2000.
“The Patience of a Saint” with Steven L. Hopp. National Geographic Magazine, Apr. 2000.
“A Forbidden Territory Familiar to All.” The New York Times, March 27, 2000.
“Civil Disobedience at Breakfast.” Brain, Child Magazine. Ed. Stephanie Wilkinson, Spring 2000.
“Life is Precious—or It’s Not: Littleton’s Aftermath.” Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1999.
“Desert Blooms” with Steven L. Hopp. Natural History, May 1999.
Excerpt from the introduction for Off the Beaten Path. The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC. March 14, 1999.
“The Passing of a Landmark.” The Arizona Daily Star, Jan. 8, 1999.
“What the Janitor Heard in the Elevator” in Crone’s Nest, No. 5, 1999.
“Survival of the Fittest” (review of The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine). New York Times Book Review, Oct. 11, 1998.
“A Forest’s Last Stand in Mexico.” Natural History, 1998.
Excerpt of “How Poems Happen. ” Utne Reader, July / August 1998.
“Between the Covers” (review of A Widow for One Year, by John Irving). The Washington Post, May 24, 1998.
“How I Stopped Worrying about Housework.” Working Mother, Jan. 1997.
“The Muscle Mystique.” Official Spa Directory of North America. Fall 1996.
“The Power of Fiction.” DePauw University magazine, Spring 1996.
“Stone Soup.” Tucson Weekly, Sept. 28, 1995.
“Downscale in Topanga Canyon” (review of The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle). Nation. Sept. 25, 1995.
“Heart of the Land: Acclaimed Writers Portray the Nature Conservancy’s ‘Last Great Places.’” Nature Conservancy, March-Apr. 1995. (From “The Memory Place” in High Tide in Tucson: Essays From Now or Never.)
“Hawaii Preserved in an Enchanted Crater.” New York Times Magazine, March 5, 1995. +
“The New American Family: The Way We Are.” Parenting, March 1995. +
“Where Everybody Really Loves a Baby.” Parenting, 1994. +
“License to Love (Should You Need a License to Be a Parent?)” Parenting, Nov. 1994. (Used in “Somebody’s Baby,” High Tide in Tucson.)
“Faultlines.” Buzz, September 1994.
“Not in Their Backyards” (review of Called Out by A. G. Mojtabal). New York Times Book Review, June 19, 1994.
“A Metaphysics of Resistance” (review of Forged Under the Sun / Forjado Bajo el Sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas by Fran Leeper Buss). The Women’s Review of Books, Feb. 1994.
“Desire Under the Palms.” New York Times, Feb. 6, 1994.
“Brazil” (review of novel by John Updike). New York Times Book Review, Feb. 6, 1994.
“The Forest in the Seeds” (review of Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings by Henry D. Thoreau). Natural History, Oct. 1993. +
“The Heard Museum: Native American Culture Comes Alive in Phoenix.” Architectural Digest, June 1993. +
“Desert Heat: So far from God” (review of novel by Ana Castillo). Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 16, 1993.
“Lush Language.” Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1993.
“His-and-Hers Politics.” Utne Reader, Jan.-Feb. 1993. +
“Fault Lines.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 12 n°3, Winter 1992.
“Secret Animals.” Turnstile, Dec. 3, 1992.
“What Happens When Justice Turns a Blind Eye?” Newsday, Oct. 25, 1992.
“Kingdom of Mystery and Magic [Benin].” New York Times Magazine, Sept. 12, 1992. +
“Whipsawed in Washington: The Living” (review of novel by Annie Dillard). Nation, May 25, 1992.
“Where the Map Stopped.” New York Times Magazine, May 17, 1992.
“The Prince Thing.” Women’s Day, Feb. 18, 1992.
“Everybody’s Somebody’s Baby.” New York Times Magazine, Feb. 9, 1992. +
“Poetic Fiction with a Tex-Mex Tilt” (review of Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros). Los Angeles Times, Apr. 28, 1991.
“My Father’s Africa.” McCall’s, August 1991.
“Fish Fall From the Sky for a Reason” (review of The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden). New York Times Book Review, Jan. 20, 1991.
“A Separate Peace.” Special Report: Fiction, Nov. 1990-Jan. 1991. +
“A Clean Sweep.” New York Times Magazine, N° 140, Dec. 30, 1990. +
“Worlds in Collision” (review of Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan). Los Angeles Times Book Review, Nov.4, 1990.
“After a Finger Workout, It’s Great Pumping Iron.” Smithsonian, Vol. 21. n°6, Sept. 1990.+
“River of Traps: A Village Life” (review of William de Buys and Alex Harris, photographer). New York Times Book Review, Special Section: University Presses, Sept. 23, 1990.
“Ah, Sweet Mystery of… Well, Not Exactly Love.” Smithsonian, Vol. 21 n°3, June 1990.+
“Notes From Underground” (review of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry by Priscilla Long). The Women’s Review of Books, June 1990.
“Life without Go-Go Boots.” Denver Post, Apr. 22, 1990. +
“Life without Go-Go Boots.” Lands’ End Catalogue. March, 1990. +
“Where Love Is Nurtured and Confined” (review of Me and My Baby View the Eclipse by Lee Smith). Los Angeles Times Book Review, Feb. 18, 1990.
“Mormon Memories, Angeleno Enigmas” (review of The Chinchilla Farm by Judith Freeman). Los Angeles Times Book Review, Nov. 19, 1989.
“The Lost Language of Love.” Mademoiselle, May 1989.
“Albert Uplifts Anything” (review of The Floatplane Notebooks, by Clyde Edgerton). New York Times Book Review, Oct. 22, 1989.
“Some Can Whistle” (review of novel by Larry McMurtry). New York Times Book Review, Oct. 22, 1989.
“Precious Little Time.” Red Book, July 1989.
“Bereaved Apartments.” Tucson Guide Quarterly, Spring 1989.
“Tribute to Edward Abbey.” Tucson Weekly, Vol. 6 n° 7, Apr. 1989.
“Night Time Losing Time” (review of novel by Michael Ventura). New York Times Book Review, Apr. 2, 1989.
“The Widows’ Adventures” (review of novel by Charles Dickinson). New York Times Book Review, 1989.
“Her Own Vision: Frances Murray: Taking Photographic Chances.” Tucson Weekly, March 9-15, 1988.
“Surviving Fatherhood” (review of None of this Will Kill Me: Poems of Fatherhood, by Jefferson Carter). Tucson Weekly, June 3, 1987.
“Exotic Watercolors.” Southwest Profile, Vol. 10 n°3, March-Apr. 1987.
“A Conversation with Milosz.” Tucson Weekly, March 4-10, 1987.
“Public Voices, Private Dreams: The Importance of Words Takes Priority this Weekend at the Fifth Annual Tucson Poetry Festival.” Tucson Weekly. March 4-10, 1987.
“Winning Hearts: Gila Monsters, Hippos, and Happiness: the Fanciful Gifts of Marjorie Sharmat, Tucson’s Renowned Children’s Author.” Tucson Weekly, Vol. 3 n°52, Feb. 18-24, 1987.
“Cognitive Dissonance.” Southwest Profile, Vol. 9 n°8, Jan. 1987.
“They Always Have the Time.” Tucson Weekly, Jan. 21-27, 1987.
“Rose-Johnny.” Virginia Quarterly Review, N°63, Winter 1987.
“Prison Poets: Dialogue from Behind the Walls.” Tucson Weekly, Vol. 3 n°44. Dec. 22-28, 1986.
“Time Bombs on Wheels: If You’re Driving without Insurance, Your Number May Soon Be Up.” Tucson Weekly, Dec. 17-23, 1986.
“Art Under Fire: In Chile It Takes Courage to Create.” Tucson Weekly, Dec. 3-9, 1986.
“Tucson Artist MarCyne Johnson.” Southwest Profile, Nov.-Dec. 1986.
“Near and Brown: A Musical Convergence.” Tucson Weekly, Oct. 29-Nov. 4, 1986.
“Continuity of Life.” Southwest Profile, Sep.-Oct. 1986.
“Missile Museum: Green Valley’s Latest Attraction.” Tucson Weekly, July 2-8, 1986. +
“Why I Am a Danger to the Public.” New Times, Jan. 4-10, 1986.
“A Musical Gift from the South.” Tucson Weekly, June 11-17, 1986.
“Ancient Symbols.” Southwest Profile, Jan.-Feb. 1986.
“The Art and Ideas of Luis Jimenez.” Tucson Weekly, Dec. 4-10, 1985.
“What We Eat and They Don’t: The Hunger Connection.” Tucson Weekly, Oct. 9-15, 1985.
“Everywoman’s Answer to Octopussy: The Modern Romance.” Tucson Weekly, Aug. 21-27, 1985.
“Imagination Unlimited at TMA School.” Tucson Weekly, Aug. 7-13, 1985.
“To Be in Love with the World.” Tucson Weekly, July 31-Aug. 6, 1985.
“Summer Relief for Tucson and Nicaragua.” Tucson Weekly, July 17-23, 1985.
“Black Culture Featured in Juneteenth.” Tucson Weekly, June 12-18, 1985.
“World of Foes” (review of Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World, by Jonathan Kwitny). Progressive, Dec.1984.
“Women on the Line.” Co-written with Jill Barrett Fein. The Progressive, March 1984.
“Intervention: Your Tax Dollars at Work.” Coyote, Vol. 2 n°7, Aug. 1983.
“Tucson Residents Fight Atomic Poisoning.” The Militant, July 13, 1979.
“In Defense of Ourselves: A Talk with Willie Mae Reid.” Source, Dec. 1977.