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ISSUE 34

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The Vegans Bought a Cattle Ranch

After building a plant-based-restaurant empire, the brood behind Café Gratitude has bet on meat—and MAHA ideals.

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YOUR TBR LIST

15 New Books for August

Here are the works by authors on and of the West—The Sleeping Sisters, Makeshift, The Nightingales—that we’re most excited to see published this month.

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CURRENT ISSUE

Family Portraits

A look inside Alta Journals Issue 36.

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FAITH AND GRACE

Lo Bonito

In Los Angeles, an undocumented mother confronts cancer and deportation fears through labor, faith, and grace.

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ilka hartmann, photographer, bolinas california
LEARNING BY SEEING

Bearing Witness

She photographed the Black Panthers, the Alcatraz occupation, and the farmworker movement. At 84, Ilka Hartmann is still developing film—and still a radical.

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CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE

Writer’s Room: Native Forms of Knowledge

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Highway 89 Revisited

A 1,400-mile trip through several national parks takes a writer deep into his past.

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