Series

B-Sides

B-Sides celebrates great books that time forgot.

Editor: John Plotz

  • John Williams’s Perfect Anti-Western

    John Williams’s Perfect Anti-Western

    Canyonlands National Park, Utah; 103ºF under a cloudless summer sky. I’d call the canyon floor below “bone-white,” if it looked like anything had ever lived there long enough to leave its bones behind. This is the part of the world where Edward Abbey (in his 1968 Desert Solitaire) said he came “to look at and…