Remembering John Nichols
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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Tag: New Mexico Authors
A September Song
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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The Holiness of Water
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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Clouds: Heavenly Postcards
Editor's note: This essay was originally published in the March 1998 issue of New Mexico Magazine . I’LL WAGER I LIVE OUT WEST because of clouds. Truly, my heart leaps up when I behold. There’s a…
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Alisa Lynn Valdés’s New Hero Is Rooted in the Land
A LATINA LONGMIRE . That’s what Alisa Lynn Valdés says she had in mind when she began writing her New Mexico–set crime series starring rookie game warden Jodi Luna. The first book, Hollow Beasts , has…
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Zahra Marwan Shares Her Story
AT AGE SEVEN, Zahra Marwan left her home in Kuwait’s desert by the sea for a new home in New Mexico’s desert by the mountains. Her family was forced to leave when laws deemed that anyone without…
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What We're Reading: Shutter
RITA TODACHEENE, RAISED IN TOHATCHI, is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police. She also sees dead people. Both skills come in handy when she’s called to the scene of a grisly…
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In Praise of New Mexico Churches
IN HISTORIC CHURCHES OF NEW MEXICO TODAY (Oxford University Press, 2017), Frank Graziano travels throughout the state to detail the history of churches and the people who care for them today…
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Trail's End
Above: Author Dan Flores outside his New Mexico home. UNLESS WILE E. COYOTE’S unrequited obsession with the Road Runner strikes you as a psychologically healthy pursuit, this is not a normal story…
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