A Santa Fe Mystery Returns
ILAN STAVANS VISITS northern New Mexico cemeteries to see how Jewish and Catholic symbols mix on some of the headstones. “The Star of David with a cross or a kabbalistic hand,” says the Amherst…
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Tag: UNM Press
What We’re Reading: Pasó por Aquí and The Desire of the Moth
WRITER, COWBOY, RANCHER, miner, and army scout Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869–1934) is remembered today for little more than coining the phrase “the land of enchantment.” A recent reissue of two of his…
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What We’re Reading: The Llano County Mermaid Club
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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What We're Reading: The Jemez Mountains
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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What We're Reading: Water for the People
IN OLIVIA ROMO’S “Bendición del Agua,” the poet fetches a ceremonial glass of water for her elder, then says a prayer of respect for both agua y abuelo. That poem (and rite) kicks off Water for the…
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What We're Reading: The Half White Album
“SOME CRITICS SAY you should never start or even use a dream in a story,” writes Cynthia J. Sylvester (Diné) in The Half-White Album (UNM Press), “but I’m awake now and pretending that it wasn’t a…
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What We're Reading: Girl Flees Circus
HOBBS NATIVE C.W. SMITH rolls out the inaugural novel in the University of New Mexico Press’s Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction series, Girl Flees Circus, which rockets readers into a 1920s…
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What We're Reading: Miles to Go
Brennen Matthews, his wife Kate, and son Thembi needed a vacation after a difficult move from Nairobi to Toronto. So they took a road trip west across the U.S., driving from Chicago to California. In…
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What We're Reading: The Unmasking
SET MOSTLY IN an approximation of Silver City’s Bear Mountain Lodge, Lynn C. Miller’s The Unmasking: A Novel (UNM Press) mixes a murder mystery with literary analyses of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude…
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What We're Reading: Bosque Poems
Above: Bosque Poems focuses on the beauty, bounty, and fragility of the desert landscape. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. DURING HER 2018–20 TENTURE as Albuquerque poet laureate, Michelle Otero…
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