"The ’s magisterial salt lakes — found in Oregon, Nevada, Utah and — feel precarious and unlikely, and indeed may not exist for long. In “Salt Lakes,” the journalist and critic Caroline Tracey recalls being first struck by them in 2014: “The lakes’ beauty captivated me,” she writes, “and their strangeness piqued my curiosity”; their palettes “of glistening blue water, white salt crusts, green wetland edges and and emerald microbial life turned the horizon into a painting.”"