THOSE WHO FREQUENT used and rare bookstores in New Mexico may know writer, editor, and publisher Jack Rittenhouse (1912–1991) for the 50 beautifully designed letterpress books he produced at…
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FOR THOSE WHO ARE deeply cynical—and anxious—about the state of the planet, Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are (North Atlantic Books) offers a rare thing: hope. Drawing from Indigenous knowledge…
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POWERED BY THE MYTHICAL Aztec goddess Cōātlīcue, with her skirt made of snakes, The Sleeping Sisters (Mulholland Books) is a roiling stew of Chicana-Indigenous literary horror. Albuquerque resident…
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IN THE LOST CITIES of El Norte (Mariner Books), Peter Stark chronicles Francisco Coronado’s disastrous 1540 expedition across the unforgiving landscapes of the Southwest, but the book’s real power…
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ILAN STAVANS VISITS northern New Mexico cemeteries to see how Jewish and Catholic symbols mix on some of the headstones. “The Star of David with a cross or a kabbalistic hand,” says the Amherst…
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WRITER, COWBOY, RANCHER, miner, and army scout Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869–1934) is remembered today for little more than coining the phrase “the land of enchantment.” A recent reissue of two of his…
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LITTLE HAS CHANGED since Willa Cather’s rendering of Santa Fe nearly a hundred years ago. The evening’s tangerine light still catches low rooftops, the Plaza still stands crisp and green underfoot…
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TAYLOR BROWN’S Wolvers (St. Martin’s Press) drops readers into southwestern New Mexico’s rugged Gila Wilderness, where the reintroduction of Mexican gray wolves has reignited old tensions. At the…
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C HACO CHANGED Judy Tuwaletstiwa’s life, both personally and as an artist. For one, it’s where she met her husband, Phillip Tuwaletstiwa (Hopi). Her time in the canyon also launched a creative journey…
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MAYBE YOU’VE SEEN classic army field manuals at military surplus stores or kept one close while you served. Or perhaps you dusted one off while browsing through a veteran relative’s things, intrigued…
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