Books | April 2017
MARY WHEELWRIGHT Her Book By Letrice A. Armstrong (Wheelwright Museum, 2016) Even if she had never ventured to the Southwest and established an important museum for Native arts, Mary Cabot Wheelwright…
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Books | March 2017
THE CARVED LINE Block Printmaking in New Mexico By Josie Lopez (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2016) Grade-schoolers often get an art lesson that involves a carved potato, stamp pad, and piece of paper…
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THE ANNUAL BIG ARSENIC FISHING CONTEST! A Novel By John Nichols (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) There’s a line about halfway through John Nichols’ new book that’s so completely right-on and…
Read MoreThe River of Life | Books | January 2017
RIO A Photographic Journey down the Old Río Grande By Melissa Savage (editor), with essays by Wiliam DeBuys, Rina Swentzell, G. Emlen Hall, Juan Estevan Arellano, Estalla Leopold, Norma Elia Cantu…
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Bound to Please
OVER THE PAST YEAR, these pages have featured dozens of great books about New Mexico and/or by New Mexicans. The tomes have ranged from deep reads about the Apache people, Rough Riders, and the…
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Not So Psychedelic
IRWIN KLEIN AND THE NEW SETTLERS Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico BY BENJAMIN KLEIN (editor), with essays by DAVID FARBER, TOM FELS, TOM HODGDON, BENJAMIN KLEIN, LOIS RUDNICK (University of…
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No Way Out
THE APACHE WARS: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History BY PAUL ANDREW HUTTON (Crown, 2016) Reaching the midpoint in The Apache…
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Wee Hairy Beasties
THE MESALAND SERIES By Loyd Tireman Adapted By Evelyn Yrissari Illustrated By Ralph Douglass (University of New Mexico Press, 2015) In the fall of 2013, John Byram, at UNM Press, received a call from…
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