"Lopez's elegantly distilled tales are striking in their psychological intensity and moral questioning, disarming in their flights of imagination. . . . They shimmer with flashes of wit and beauty, and the radiance of love." -Chicago Tribune "With somber grace, Lopez parses the facile bumper-sticker slogan 'the personal is political, ' and discovers in it the potential of a host of private radicalizing experiences. . . . . . . .these small narratives are intimate and mysterious." -The New York Times Book Review"Lopez has ventured out into territory quite risky and raised important questions. . . that few other fiction writers have made stick." -San Francisco Chronicle "A poetic testament to the power of the imagination to prevail over the coercion of repressive authority. . . . Remarkable, beautifully conceived and deeply moving." -Seattle Times"Diamond-sharp . . . sumptuously descriptive . . . Lopez gives us a glimpse of how the sparks fly when individual will digs in against culture's monolith." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"Powerfully insightful . . . If you're looking for a refreshing switch from silliness, you need look no further than Lopez." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer"9/11 was the day that changed the world forever [and] in his latest collection of short fiction, Barry Lopez addresses the premonitory tremors and staggering aftershocks of that utterly changed world. . . . Eloquent defenses of the natural world, of indigenous peoples, of moderation, of life lived outside the mainstream . . . Lopez's writing is luminous, almost shamanic, with metaphors and poetic rhythms pulsing from every page." -L.A. Weekly"A cunning work of fiction likely to provoke anyone with hope of the future to reassess their current strategies for happiness. . . . Through these mesmerizing stories, Lopez challenges us all to pay attention to how well our lives express our deepest values." -Rocky Mountain News"A manifesto for the 21st century . . . Crammed with action, heartbreak, exotic locales and dangerous ideas . . . potent medicine for readers-especially American readers-exhausted by contemporary events and close to surrender." -Santa Cruz Sentinel "Barry Lopez is a writer of alchemical powers who transforms tyranny with a brilliance of language into brave acts of conscience and consequence." -Terry Tempest Williams"Barry Lopez is a rarity-a writer of unembarrassed seriousness. Resistance, his sequence of depositions from nine troubled travellers, is a work of luminous gravity. It sets the oldest wisdoms of myth and landscape against the newest conventions of the West in narratives which are daring, sensuous, beautiful and important." -Jim Crace"A dynamic and remarkable meditation on engagement. . . . Written against the paranoia that accompanies terrorism and its mirror image, the Patriot Act, Resistance is subtle and persuasive protest literature. . . . Resistance makes explicit the connection between art and politics, suggesting it's high time they work together again." -St. Petersburg Times