A Look at Kevin Bubriski’s New Mexico
KEVIN BUBRISKI drove cross-country to Santa Fe in 1981, fresh from a stint with the Peace Corps in Nepal. The aspiring documentary filmmaker fell in love with still photography in northern New Mexico…
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Category: Books
What We're Reading: Fountain Creek
NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE contributor and Pueblo, Colorado, native Jim O’Donnell traces the flow of his hometown watershed in Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River (Torrey House Press). “The world…
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Five Books to Gift This Season
FOR THE ART LOVER Paired with an exhibition at Santa Fe’s Museum of Indian Arts & Culture that runs through February 2, Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles showcases a dazzling…
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What We’re Reading: Light as Light
“LANGUAGE IS AT THE BASE and core of relating to others,” Acoma Pueblo poet Simon J. Ortiz writes in Light as Light (University of Arizona Press). “Language is motion. Action. Doing. Letting. Sharing…
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What We’re Reading: A Passing West
DAGOBERTO GILB’S book of personal and journalistic essays, A Passing West (UNM Press), is as fun as it is thought-provoking. His meditations on Mexican American identity and life in the West take…
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What We're Reading: Moonlight Elk
BEGINNING IN 2010, Christie Green learned to hunt elk, deer, oryx, turkey, grouse, and quail in the eight eco-regions of New Mexico. Her deeply moving memoir, Moonlight Elk: One Woman’s Hunt for Food…
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What We're Reading: Blood Mountain
LOOKING TO GET IN TOUCH with northern New Mexico culture? Dive into the second book in Alisa Lynn Valdés’s bestselling thriller series starring state game warden Jodi Luna. In Blood Mountain (Thomas &…
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What We're Reading: A Luminous Uplift
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO poet John Brandi traverses three continents and 40 years in A Luminous Uplift: Landscape & Memory (White Pine Press). Brandi divides his tome into travelogues of places he’s…
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Tales of the Southwest
MANY BOOKSTORES throughout the state have a Southwest section. But Books of the Southwest, in the original Las Vegas, is completely devoted to the special category of used and rare regional…
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What We're Reading: Lost Birds
AT THE OUTSET of Lost Birds (Harper), Anne Hillerman’s gripping ninth novel in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series, a man rings up retired detective-turned-private-eye Joe Leaphorn for help. As…
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