Jonathan C Slaght

A @startribune.com Best Book of 2025! "Minneapolis writer and naturalist Slaght's "Owls of the Eastern Ice" was hugely acclaimed in 2020 and "Tigers" may be even better....enlivened by the insights of Slaght, whose compassion and curiosity make his book suspenseful and urgent." 💙📚 🌍

Amur tigers are “so elusive that even humans living in their territory may go all their lives without glimpsing more than a trail of pugmarks in the snow.” —Colin Thubron

Vikings are doing amazing this year. Which is great. Makes grocery shopping super easy on Sundays.

some free, upcoming events to promote the paperback release of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES!

Google's motto at one time was "Don't be evil"

paperbacks have arrived! They look great!

The latest NYRB says Tigers Between Empires offers a "balanced, lucid, and intimately knowledgeable record" of the Primorye conservation project. Congrats @jonathanslaght.com for another great review!

I just learned that there is a book called Impossible Owls by @brianphillips.lol - if you want to learn about Possible Owls have I got a book for you www.theguardian.com/books/2020/j...

Just announced! I'll be a "Featured Presenting Author" at the Twin Cities Book Festival (Union Depot, Saint Paul) on November 7! Free, hope to see you there, more details: twincitiesbookfestival.com/presenting-a...

"they haven't been doing much"

Bookstore at the Chinggis Khan International Airport in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Monday morning traffic into Ulaanbaatar

Colin Thubron says TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES is “balanced, lucid, and intimately knowledgeable....[Slaght’s writing has] the precision and vividness of firsthand experience, where the tigers become as characterful as their trackers.” Full review in @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/articles/202... #booksky

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

if it's what you say it is I love it

spending Sunday - my last full day in Mongolia - wrapping up a mystery story I can't talk about yet (does not take place in Mongolia). Really excited about it though

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Dawn; any bird captured at sunrise. Alt. is #Dusk; any bird captured at sunset. Like usual I have a suitable Merlin photo. Here, the Minneapolis pair from 2017 watch the sunset along with a fresh kill - an adult male Downy woodpecker

Sunlight on the larches, with Saturday evening traffic in Ulaanbaatar

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Dawn; any bird captured at sunrise. Alt. is #Dusk; any bird captured at sunset. Like usual I have a suitable Merlin photo. Here, the Minneapolis pair from 2017 watch the sunset along with a fresh kill - an adult male Downy woodpecker

coming soon: the tallest building in Mongolia

Thinking about this drawing my daughter added to a signed copy of my owl book - I believe she was seven at the time. Wonder where it went and if the recipient appreciated it

Just finished reading Thubron's THE AMUR RIVER; BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA, which I rationed 1 section at a time. Reading it was deeply enriched by having read your superb world-enlarging TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES. Next I need to reread both books.

Had a blast last night speaking at Back of the Beyond Books in Moab, Utah, where they set me up to hold forth from behind Edward Abbey’s old wooden desk! While I was waiting for folks to arrive, I got to read thru a photo copy of the Abbey’s original copy edit pass on Desert Solitaire…

gotta hand it to WWF...they have amazing marketing 🐼

Just in time for the paperback release of Tigers Between Empires (November 3rd from @picadorbooks.bsky.social), a new review in The New York Review of Books by the great Colin Thubron! www.nybooks.com/.../burning-... #booksky

Traditional Mongolian script on a wall in Ulaanbaatar. Introduced in 13th Century under Ghengis Khan, was replaced by Cyrillic in 1946. Still used as primary script in Inner Mongolia of China & seeing a revival here

good morning Ulaanbaatar

the Scat Airlines flight safety card looks like a David Byrne number

restating my belief that your airline name should not be a synonym for poop

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Tea & backgammon near Varzob, Tajikistan

spent a few hours today exploring an abandoned scientific station outside of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. There was a pool and everything

spent a few hours today exploring an abandoned scientific station outside of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. There was a pool and everything

Pentagon To Livestream Firing Squad Execution https://theonion.com/pentagon-to-livestream-firing-squad-execution/

I've wanted to come here for a long time. Finally in Tajikistan!

You may have heard that nonfiction's having a rough time. I investigated for @thewalrus.ca. And it's very true, but not for the reasons you might think. thewalrus.ca/nonfiction-i...

I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

for some reason I am being attacked for taking a picture of a dog