Shop Eco Wear’s Wild Side
BE WARNED: Once you start to parse through ECO Wear and Publishing’s ball cap selection, it’s hard to choose just one design. There are hats adorned with embroidered bison, coyotes, rattlesnakes, and…
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Tag: Books
What We’re Reading: Jack Rittenhouse: A Western Literary Life
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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What We’re Reading: The Sleeping Sisters
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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What We’re Reading: The Lost Cities of El Norte
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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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Jump into the page. Get ready to geek out about the latest books and discover local authors this weekend at the second annual Book Fest at the ABQ Collective. “Last year we had a turnout of 600…
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A Santa Fe Mystery Returns
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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What We’re Reading: Pasó por Aquí and The Desire of the Moth
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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The 7,500-Foot Literary Fest
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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What We’re Reading: Wolvers
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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What We’re Reading: Horses
NAVAJO NATION poet laureate Jake Skeets won several national awards for his 2019 debut, which centers on queer eros on the rez. His stunning follow-up, Horses (Milkweed Editions), describes…
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