Nonfiction Essays: Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (1990), Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West (1994), A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland (1997), Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism (2000) – with Susie Bright, Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000), As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art (2001), River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (2003), Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (2004; revised 2016), A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005), Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (2007), A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009), Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (2010) – with cartographers, The Faraway Nearby (2013), Men Explain Things to Me (2014), Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (2016) – with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The Mother of All Questions (2017), Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) (2018), Recollections of My Nonexistence (2020), Orwell’s Roses (2021), Waking Beauty (2023)
This research guide was created by Emma Cowan, English Department Intern, Gumberg Library, March 2025.
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