Hidden in Plain Sight
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN Selected Stories By Lucia Berlin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) Lucia Berlin (1936–2004) lived in many places and in many ways. She was a well-off teenager in Chile…
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Knowing: The Right Gift
Harvey Houses of New Mexico: Historic Hospitality from Ratón to Deming (The History Press) vibrates with memories, voices, and historical details, evoking the pivotal era when visionary Fred Harvey…
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Book Reviews
HOW THE WORLD MOVES: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family BY PETER NABOKOV (Viking, 2015) THE ORIGIN MYTH OF ACOMA PUEBLO BY EDWARD PROCTOR HUNT (Penguin, 2015) Peter Nabokov is no stranger to…
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LADIES OF THE CANYONS: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest BY LESLEY POLING-KEMPES (The University of Arizona Press, 2015) When it comes to female…
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Book Reviews
TURQUOISE, WATER, SKY: Meaning and Beauty in Southwest Native Arts BY MAXINE E. MCBRINN, ROSS E. ALTSHULER (MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, 2015) Last year, New Mexico’s long-standing love affair with…
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THE ART OF RUIN BY ROBERT STIVERS (Twin Palms Publishers, 2015) The first thing to know about Santa Fe–based Robert Stivers’ The Art of Ruin is that, even for an art book, it’s oversized. At 16 by 20…
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Hillermania
One of New Mexico’s most widely lauded and loved writers, Tony Hillerman, would have turned 90 this year. The bestselling author, who wrote more than 30 books, also taught journalism at UNM and…
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Santa Fe grandmother Jenny Zamora Valdez has a lot to brag about. Not only does she talk with her granddaughter, Kirstin Valdez Quade, every other day, but said granddaughter recently won the…
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Plunder of the Ancients
Whenever Native ceremonial spiritual objects like masks and statues are seen as trophy items by collectors, you can bet that black-market operatives are ready and willing to lie, cheat, and steal in…
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New Mexico Between the Covers
Any of these books would be a treat for someone who loves New Mexico and doesn’t (yet) live here. But they also give the gift of a heightened sense of appreciation for one’s home state, which enjoys a…
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