First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100, edited by Elizabeth High-tower Allen (Torrey House Press, 2022) Local artists, conservationists, and writers including Michael P. Berman, Martha Schumann…
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CONNIE WILLIS’S NOVEL The Road to Roswell (Del Rey) is paved with crackling dialogue, New Mexico–specific humor, aliens, men in black, UFOs, and some out-of-this-world adventures. Willis, a winner of…
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SET IN THE 1960S and filled with beautifully captured moments of nostalgia, Shoot the Moon (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) is a heartfelt novel from Isa Arsén, a love letter to the Southwest inspired by…
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“BLACKDOM WAS A REAL PLACE,” Timothy E. Nelson insists. The Santa Fe–based historian introduces his book about the early 20th-century Black homesteader colony in Chaves County with the simple fact of…
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IN 1986, DOUGLAS PRESTON drove from New York City to Santa Fe. There, he settled into a writing career that included contributions to New Mexico Magazine. His 1995 New Yorker article, “The Mystery of…
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ART Harwood Centennial: 100 Works for 100 Years Nicole Dial-Kay, Emily Santhanam (Museum of New Mexico Press) The Harwood Foundation opened its first show in 1923, more than a decade before the town…
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ONE OF NEW MEXICO’S most beloved writers left us on Monday, November 27. John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War, died at age 83. Born and raised in New York, he wrote his first novels there…
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IN SEPTEMBER, my joy and sorrow begin. It is the month when I feel most alive, both fragile and indestructible. It also creates in me a discomforting nostalgia, a yearning for more that makes me a…
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Editor's note: This essay and photos by John Nichols were originally excerpted in the July 1992 issue of New Mexico Magazine from The Holiness of Water, a book that was planned to publish in 1993 as…
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IF YOU LOOK OUT THE WINDOWS during a trip on the Rail Runner Express between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, you’re rewarded with a trove of murals on city walls. In Darryl Lorenzo Wellington’s Legible…
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