FOR THOSE WHO ARE deeply cynical—and anxious—about the state of the planet, Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are (North Atlantic Books) offers a rare thing: hope. Drawing from Indigenous knowledge…
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POWERED BY THE MYTHICAL Aztec goddess Cōātlīcue, with her skirt made of snakes, The Sleeping Sisters (Mulholland Books) is a roiling stew of Chicana-Indigenous literary horror. Albuquerque resident…
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KATHLEEN M. RODGERS’S new novel beautifully captures the feeling of growing up landlocked and dreaming of the sea. Set in the fictional eastern New Mexico town of Sandhill, The Llano County Mermaid…
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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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WHEN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO announced it would cut the men’s soccer program in 2018, fans, players, and alumni were stunned. The Lobos weren’t just competitive—they were nationally recognized…
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PAUL ANDREW HUTTON saw Walt Disney’s Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier for the first time when he was six years old. “That just stamped itself on my psyche,” says the longtime University of New…
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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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IN TANTRUM (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), Rachel Eve Moulton serves a wickedly smart and unsettling look at motherhood, generational trauma, and the fear of raising a monster—literally. The novel follows Thea…
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THOMAS W. SWETNAM’S The Jemez Mountains: A Cultural and Natural History (University of New Mexico Press), doesn’t read like the academic tome its title suggests. The 40 short chapters explore colorful…
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THE GRIZZLE-ALLISON FAMILY FARMS, where the three sons grew up, were situated in eastern New Mexico, about 30 miles south of Roswell, a city of about 40,000 people in the 1940s, near the small town of…
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