What We're Reading: American Oasis
KYLE PAOLETTA’S debut, American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest (Pantheon Books), offers a compelling exploration of five Southwestern metropolises, with Albuquerque—the…
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Tag: Culture
One of Our 50 Is Missing: May 2025
ET TU, FARMINGTON? MICHAEL PADILLA says he could write a book about his “One of Our 50” experiences. A recent entry includes his payment being denied at an AutoZone in Farmington. “I tried to pay with…
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Ramona Emerson Pens a Haunting New Novel
T HE OPENING PAGES of Ramona Emerson’s new novel, Exposure, are crime-scene-level gory. A family is brutally murdered—and Navajo forensic photographer Rita Todacheene is back on the job. She’s also…
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Arthur Sze's Poetic Journey
“When a black butterfly flits past, when you glimpse the outlines of apple trees, when you smell the sprig of sunrise and walk up to the ditch …” ARTHUR SZE’S NEW BOOK OF POEMS leads off with a simple…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: April 2025
BANANA BRAIN When PATRICK ERCOLINO ’s grandmother passed away, he took his two young sons to a Banana Republic in New Jersey to buy suits for the funeral. To receive 50 percent off, he applied for a…
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Melissa Fu Tells the Caldera's Story
A LTHOUGH LOS ALAMOS native Melissa Fu moved to the United Kingdom 18 years ago, she says she’s “always plotting” ways to return home. In September, the author joined the inaugural artist-in-residence…
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Writing the Trail
What compelled you to write this book? There were so many points of entry for me to study the women of the Santa Fe Trail. I have lived along the Santa Fe Trail and have been the chief executive of…
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For the Record
P OP CULTURE OFTEN DEPICTS record store owners as a certain type: pretentious, aloof, and opinionated, often dismissive of mainstream tastes in favor of underground tracks. George Casey, owner of Lost…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: March 2025
COOKIE CRUMBLED In December, New York Times food columnist LISA DONOVAN created a stir with her bizcochitos recipe. The writer discovered our state cookie at a gas station “somewhere in New Mexico”…
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The String Family
MOST JAZZ MUSICIANS PREFER A double bass with a sprightly pizzicato tone. But Charlie Haden chose a model made around 1843 in France by the renowned J.B. Vuillaume, one of only three known to exist…
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