The Monkey Wrench Gang

book by Edward Abbey

Themes: environment, activism, southwest

Release date: 03-07-2026

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

A critical reading list

Books About the Southwest: History, Fiction, and the Stories We Were Never Told

The American Southwest has been mythologized so thoroughly and for so long that the myth has become almost impossible to see around. These books are a corrective.