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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Tag: Literature
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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Buy These New Mexico Books
FOR HISTORY BUFFS What made the men who shaped the West tick? If you’ve wondered about the motivations of such complex figures as Daniel Boone, Red Eagle, Davy Crockett, Mangas Coloradas, Kit Carson…
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George R.R. Martin’s Fantastical Realm
NO SIGN HANGS OUTSIDE Milk of the Poppy, but that’s part of the fun in finding the medieval apothecary-themed bar. Instead, an illuminated carved poppy on the adobe wall by the entrance seems to…
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What We’re Reading: Johnny Geronimo: Art of Darkness
IN SANTA FE, someone has murdered an art collector, and now they’re moving on to Native artists. The police have called in a private eye: Think Philip Marlowe, but make him Apache. Eagle Eye…
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Joshua Wheeler’s Cosmic New Novel
JOSHUA WHEELER HAD HEARD THE STORY—many times—about the cult in La Luz. His family owned White Sands Ranch in nearby Alamogordo, and his aunt and uncle ran a church on the property that became a…
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What We’re Reading: The Kármán Line
T HE KÁRMÁN LINE (Rescue Press), the title of Daisy Atterbury’s breathtaking, genre-blurring memoir in poetry and prose, refers to the threshold between Earth and outer space. “Above the Kármán line,”…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Explore nature on film. Los Alamos Nature Center presents National Parks Adventure , an immersive IMAX film narrated by Academy Award–winner Robert Redford, on Saturday at 2 p.m. Celebrating the…
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The Power of the Pen
“I LOVE MY SOLITARY LIFE,” says Albuquerque poet, novelist, and screenwriter Jimmy Santiago Baca. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Baca spent portions of his youth in a Santa Fe orphanage before…
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What We’re Reading: A Passing West
DAGOBERTO GILB’S book of personal and journalistic essays, A Passing West (UNM Press), is as fun as it is thought-provoking. His meditations on Mexican American identity and life in the West take…
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