The six stories in Outside showcase Barry Lopezs majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our exterior and interior landscapes these stories offer profound insight into the relationships between humans and animals creativity and beauty and ultimately life and death. Again and again whether describing a Navajo rug possessing the essence of its maker a boy who can change places with his halfcoyote dog