What We're Reading: First & Wildest
ALDO LEOPOLD'S MONUMENTAL IDEA became the 1922 birth of the Gila Wilderness, the first such protected place in the nation. In honor of its centennial, Elizabeth Hightower Allen gathered essays from…
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The Feather and the Cellphone
MY COMPANIONS AND I LABORED THROUGH DEEP SNOW for 15 long minutes—and this after driving through two-foot-deep drifts on the way up to the caldera on a frigid February evening. Now, as we trudged on…
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What We're Reading: Virgil Ortiz: reVOlution
VIRGIL ORTIZ'S FIRST CLAY FIGURE, created at age six, was a curvy woman clad in a man’s two-piece suit and bow tie. For his genre-bending work, the potter, provocateur, fashion designer, and futurist…
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What We're Reading: The Unmasking
SET MOSTLY IN an approximation of Silver City’s Bear Mountain Lodge, Lynn C. Miller’s The Unmasking: A Novel (UNM Press) mixes a murder mystery with literary analyses of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude…
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Books We Loved in 2021
Above: Photograph by Clay Banks/Unsplash. The Shadow Crosser J.C. Cervantes (Rick Riordan Presents) The final installment in the Las Cruces–based author’s Zane Obispo trilogy of Mayan myth, which…
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Our Best Books for the Holidays
Land and Culture Cultural Convergence in New Mexico: Interactions in Art, History & Archaeology Edited by Robin Farwell Gavin and Donna Pierce (Museum of New Mexico Press) Compiled in honor of…
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Culture Hero
Above: Lee Francis IV drawson his Laguna Pueblo heritage and doctorate in educational leadership. Illustration by Dale DeForest. LEE FRANCIS IV GREW UP PICKING COMIC BOOKS off the spinner racks at…
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What We're Reading: Bosque Poems
Above: Bosque Poems focuses on the beauty, bounty, and fragility of the desert landscape. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. DURING HER 2018–20 TENTURE as Albuquerque poet laureate, Michelle Otero…
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What We're Reading: Native Plant Gardening for Birds, Bees & Butterflies
Native Plant Gardening for Birds, Bees & Butterflies: Southwest offers southwest gardening tips. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. CLIMATE CHANGE DISRUPTS THE LIVES of pollinators whose work ensures the…
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In This Haunting Novel, A Family Reckons with Loss and Injustice
Brandon Hobson's The Removed debuted in February. Photographs courtesy of Ecco and Brandon Hobson. BRANDON HOBSON'S NOVELS ARE GUIDED BY the Cherokee legends his mother and granny told him, by themes…
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