What We're Reading: Blind Eye
A DOUBLE MURDER ANCHORS MARTHA BURNS’S debut novel, Blind Eye (Atmosphere Press), but the mystery of its perpetrator fits into larger dramas of generational abuse and a community’s reluctance to…
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Category: Books
Books We Loved in 2022
reVOlution Charles S. King (Museum of New Mexico Press) Author Charles S. King places Virgil Ortiz's creativity in the context of his Cochiti Pueblo artistic lineage. First & Wildest: The Gila…
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Gift-Worthy Books for the Holidays
LITERARY Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between Harrison Candelaria Fletcher (Mad Creek Books) Raised in Albuquerque’s North Valley, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher struggled to divine his identity…
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What We're Reading: Shutter
RITA TODACHEENE, RAISED IN TOHATCHI, is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police. She also sees dead people. Both skills come in handy when she’s called to the scene of a grisly…
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What We're Reading: Murder at Sleeping Tiger
AT A FICTIONAL MEDITATION CENTER near Taos, all is not Zen. A record snowstorm closes roads, people fall dead, and Sheriff Ulysses Walker suspects … murrderr. Dixon-based behavioral therapist C.R…
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What We're Reading: Wild New World
IT COMES OUT IN LATE OCTOBER, but the new Dan Flores book is worth the wait. In Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals & People in America (W.W. Norton), the Santa Fe–based author delivers epic…
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What We're Reading: Tucumcari Tonite!
“TUCUMCARI” MIGHT COME from a Comanche word meaning “to lie in wait for someone or something to approach.” It’s a fitting moniker, we learn in Tucumcari Tonite! A Story of Railroads, Route 66 & the…
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What We're Reading: Molly
THE TITLE CHARACTER in Kevin Honold’s lyrical Molly (Autumn House Press) is a waitress working out a hardscrabble but vastly imaginative life in a trailer on a mesa in New Mexico in 1968. She dubs her…
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What We're Reading: New Mexico Rocks!
NEW MEXICO ABOUNDS in geologic wonders, from Ship Rock to Carlsbad Caverns, Capulín Volcano to Rockhound State Park, and a zillion dunes, plains, mountains, and gorges in between. Wouldn’t it be nice…
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What We're Reading: Sky Rider
ON JULY 4, 1882, six-foot-tall, 225-pound Park Van Tassel lifted off from Albuquerque’s Old Town in a hot-air balloon that was dangerously inflated at only two-thirds capacity. It was the first…
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