Author J.C. Cervantes and her novel, Shadow Crosser . Photograph by Wendy Ewing. J.C. CERVANTES DIDN’T KNOW she was writing a book when she began Tortilla Sun. Her youngest daughter just wanted a story…
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Kevin Kerney returns in this action-packed adventure. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. WE KNEW THAT SAYING GOODBYE to fictional detective Kevin Kerney would be hard, but who knew it would be so brutal…
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ART & ARCHITECTURE Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life Well Lived By Malcolm Varon (University of New Mexico Press) In her final decades, Georgia O’Keeffe trusted Malcolm Varon to photograph her artwork…
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THE FICTIONAL TULLY MCINTYRE should focus on his Western history dissertation, but the poor guy has a bad case of gold fever. Robert Julyan takes us on Tully’s hunt in Treasure Tale (Silver Maple…
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AFTER YEARS OF DELIGHTING READERS with his City of Dust blog, John M. Mulhouse packs his knowledge of small towns and photos of iconic buildings into a book, Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns…
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Photograph by John McCauley. ON JULY 4, 1912, around 4,000 PEOPLE witnessed a lopsided bout that was “no better than a basement smoker in the local Odd Fellows lodge hall,” writes Toby Smith in Crazy…
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Illustration by Megan Dailey AN AVID READER LIVES MANY LIVES. Ink on paper becomes a means to travel, to take on magic powers or learn about events that shaped our world. Given that we could all…
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Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. MIKE BUTLER BREEZES READERS SOUTH from Antonito, Colorado, in Tracking the Chili Line Railroad to Santa Fe (Arcadia, 2020). The narrow-gauge line ran in full from 1887…
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THIRTY-ONE YEARS AFTER Edward Abbey’s death, his legacy as one of the godparents of Southwestern environmentalism lives on. Wrenched from the Land: Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey (UNM Press…
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Above: Named in honor of Denise Chávez's late sister, Faride, this room at Casa Camino Real has transformed into Libros para el Viaje's book distribution center. Photographs by Jay Hemphill. WE ARE…
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