Sundown state
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff If you want a master class is hypocrisy and cynicism — and ever need a handy example for what irony truly is — look at what happened in a...
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Internal combustion therapy
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Every spring for the past 20 years or so, around the time when the weather turns warm in earnest, I mark a personal seasonal resurrection: the starting up of...
A Few Thoughts… On sergeants, generals and firefights
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist In Missoula is a house on North Street referred to by its occupants as the Food Shack. It’s home to college students, recent graduates and miscellaneous other young singles,...
To all the books I’ve loved before
By Ben Olson Reader Staff After Ötzi the Iceman was discovered frozen in the Eastern Italian Alps, scientists examined the contents of his stomach to learn what types of foods he ate 5,300 years...
Idaho’s militant fringe is trying to build a private army
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s been a bad run of years for a lot of reasons, but one particularly insidious trend has been eroding the substructures of civil society in Idaho since at...
A Few Thoughts… On Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and world domination
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Questions: Why does halftime at the Super Bowl last 100 years and feature stuff football fans have no interest in? Is it just me, or do others have no...
On motherhood
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff This missive has made it into the pages of the Reader against all odds from a world so far removed from reality that time and space lack any meaning....
Sister of Eve
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Nana made our clothes until her hands couldn’t hold the thread. She dedicated her downstairs living room to the craft: pins and needles scattered across three tables, streams of...
From resolve to dissolve
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When I took a philosophy class a long time ago, one of the students asked our professor how he planned to observe the new year. His response was that...
Celebrity worship is peak cringe
By Ben Olson Reader Staff After college, I spent about five years living and working in Los Angeles. The plan was to break into writing and directing movies, but the highest level I achieved...
